 Shirley s a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband s chip n egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she s stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.