A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 70th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father…

When a reluctant bride-to-be’s fiance drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved…