Pause Between Acts

Abandoned by her husband Jack, Joan begins a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. She shuns her kind neighbors, refuses to take part in the activities of the school where she works and spurns the advances of Robin, a particularly toothsome gym teacher. But when her neighbours Fred and Geraldine introduce her to the roguishly desirable actor Finbar Flynn the walls of the citadel begin to crack . . .!