The forty year story of Halogen Entertainment, an LGBTQ production company that produced TV and music for the LGBTQ community.
In 1978 Gus and Ben, two teenagers, are abducted by an alien force. Forty years later they are still living with the effects of that night. Ben has become an alcoholic and Gus has been hiding his true origins. Both have tried to cope in their own way, but nothing has worked. Flashing between 1978 and 2019, our protagonists are challenged at every point by friends and family, some of them still demanding to know what happened to the duo that night all those years ago.
Hugh and Struan’s happy world as a couple in their tenth year together is turned upside down when Struan’s mother dies and they take in his father.
Vince Carver is a seventy-five year old man living alone in a sleepy village by the sea. Recently he had a heart attack and now has a district nurse come to see him once a week. He decides to take in a lodger.
Daryl Pearson lives with his grandmother in Coventry. Abandoned there by his mother when he was a baby, he is lost and searching for his father. When a box arrives from his mother he finds more than he could hope for inside it. Adam is trying to juggle recapturing past successes and dealing with his friend's marital problems. Ominous dreams signal that there are other things at work, and love, music and fate combine to reveal the truth.
Stripped of his military pension when he was outed thirty years earlier, Henry now works as a cleaner. When he meets a young ex-soldier, Jake, he learns he may be able to have his pension reinstated. Suffering from PTSD, Henry is not sure he has the strength to fight another battle, but when his former boyfriend Benji needs a place to live, the three men learn how to live, love, and be a team.