A dimly lit room in north London, the near future Earl (28) lives with his twin sister, Rebecca. Although both adults, they regress and behave like children: it is as if the clock stopped for them when they were ten years old. They are like children in a fairy tale: their innocence threatened by an evil world. Earl and Rebecca's mother mysteriously "disappeared" about ten years ago. He has no recollection of his father. The pair …showed first 75 words of 1238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1238 total…work as usual. It was just before we left school. The big white van came up to the house to take her to work. But she never did come back. The van never brought her home. She simply vanished. And I was left to look after you. I still think about her sometimes...do you? She never did buy a new pan. [He hurries into the kitchen and returns with a scorched frying pan]. See!