Lily and James, ten years earlier

In the stark embrace of Edinburgh's winter light, a marriage unravels thread by thread. James and Lily Evans navigate the treacherous waters of modern partnership, where love and contempt dance an uneasy waltz in their kitchen each morning. While their five children orbit around them, both parents grapple with unspoken desires and devastating secrets.

Lily, fresh from a transformative course that awakened more than just her spiritual energy, finds herself torn between domestic duties and raw yearnings. Her frustration manifests in an obsession with crumbs on countertops-a battlefield where deeper wars are fought. Meanwhile, James drowns in his own melancholy, a self-proclaimed artist of sadness who can't quite grasp why his privileged life feels so hollow.

Their morning routine becomes a masterclass in passive aggression, where every sigh carries the weight of unspoken accusations, and every glance holds the potential for both tenderness and destruction. As their eldest discusses Bitcoin and their youngest sketches war scenes, the parents wage their own silent combat, testing the boundaries of their commitment.

This unflinching portrait of domestic discord peels back the layers of a seemingly perfect family, exposing the raw nerves beneath. Through stream-of-consciousness narrative and unvarnished dialogue, we witness the excruciating dance of two people bound by love yet poisoned by resentment, each wondering if the other might be their salvation or their undoing.

A story that dares to ask: In a world where we can have everything, why do we still wake up unhappy?