Rita, a beautician, rises at 5:30 AM and angrily makes a list of things she wants and wants not to do when newlyweds Ken and Daisy visit. Husband Jeffery is enthusiastic about showing them about, even though Rita and Ken had lived together for a year in Cardiff, Wales. Rita remembers Ken's penchant for exhausting hikes and climbs and wanting to get into bed early. Rita breaks it off and moves to London. She and utterly predictable, cliché-spouting Jeffery have been married a year. Rita sits, planning how to present herself to her ex during the dinner meeting and worrying about how Ken will mock the kinds of things in their flat that they together had always laughed over in others' homes. She wants Ken to still love her, although she does not love him.