What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.
Mike Upchat is an unsuccessful novelist who lives out of a railway station locker - he has the gift of the Gab and changes his life story every episode to impress different women - basically he reinvents himself to score.