Five

(??)
Tom Curtis is a cartoonist in his mid twenties, named after his grandfather Tomasz Kuczynski who is now only just alive and falling away to dementia. Tom's mother rents a small shop and runs it as an art gallery in Brighton, his father is rarely around. Tom is not far from losing his girlfriend. And a visitor from Amsterdam is on her way to see him.

(The Fairground)
Mike plays trumpet in a jazz band that is not doing so well. He is beginning to harbour doubts about Dave, who started the band and deals with most of the bookings but who also, Mike suspects, is cheating on his wife. Mike is thinking to leave and start his own group and wants to take with him Annie, who plays trombone. She is doing well not to let anyone realise she is coming apart at the seams.

(??)
Two freelance photographers keep meeting each other at car crashes, football matches and scripted appearances by politicians.

(The Fairground)
She was thinking that cities sometimes look like fairgrounds. She had to buy a ticket to get in and then spent much of the day just wandering about with the crowds, looking at the attractions. She'd been on lots of them before - bars around Soho, the traffic sweeping along Kingsway and dodging around Aldwych, Gordons, boats on the river. Fairgrounds look desolate at night, she thought, and London's no different.

(Perspex)
Sandrine, a psychotherapist, is interested in the dreams of her patients and encourages them to write them down and talk through them. But she becomes rather too interested in the dreams of one person in particular. "I can't describe it, he keeps...they're...they're just bothering me."