Hollywood movie star Elizabeth and her English book editor husband, Matt, are a glamorous and successful couple. Or at least they would be, if only either of them could actually get a job.

As it is, Elizabeth is completely adrift in London and Matt has just been made redundant. To top it off, they're both Middle-Aged, which is nothing short of a deathblow in the ultra-ageist world of Showbiz. Try as they might to keep up with all the latest fads and fashions in film and books - such as the Tarantino-esque reinvention of the costume drama, or literature's visionary new genre, the fun, ultra-violent, torture-porn, endurance-horror - they can't help secretly thinking that it's all a load of piffle.

Their old friend and uber-agent Leon Blakely, urges Matt and Elizabeth not to lose heart, at the same time as pouring all his efforts into promoting the latest teenage reality TV star... Matt and Elizabeth cling to each other as tightly as they can as they set out to brave the increasingly hostile world around them. Whatever happens, they've got each other.