In London, Tom and Phyl are self-assured and in control of the situation whenever they meet their friends Huw and Tegwen. But when they're not on home ground and when they accept an invitation to visit Huw and Tegwen’s home in Wales, relationships change more than a little Huw, a London barrister, whose heart is in the Welsh hills, is truly king of his castle, and shocks and excites Phul with some of his "Cassanova" qualities. And Tegwen's relationship with her husband intrigues Tom, whose marriage is more of an easy companionship. But why have they been invited for the weekend?

The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredom is in the fells After five years of weekends together they had never managed to reach the top of the Horseshoe, but were always defeated by something trivial. By the sixth year their combined failure to get to the summit took on the proportions of a tragedy especially they all saw it matching the situation in their everyday lives. Filmed on location