![Miriam Karlin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/uCQHjnB0FrAbTAUat5RRIQDu4kB.jpg)
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain.