As family and friends gather at the funeral to mourn Hilda, her grandson is plagued by one thought. He belives someone quite close by has klled her... When Hilda became seriously ill the burden of care fell on her daughter Alice's shoulders. But Alice was already juggling the demands of her teenage children, intractable husband Ralph and detached brother David with his self centred wife. Could she have cracked under the strain? By turns capricious, loving, autocratic, snobbish, demanding and funny, Hilda will call upon her daughter's deepest reserves of strengh. Mother probes with complex psychological insight into hte buried tensions of family life.