In turns comic, moving and spine-chilling, this one-act play is a rarely seen masterpiece by the author of Time and the Conways and An Inspector Calls. In the late 1940s Britain has won the war but victory is forgotten as food, clothing and much else is still rationed. Homes are cold, cities dreary and the future seems bleak. In a London pub a group of drinkers - men and women, young and old - find plenty to complain about in their lives. Then a stranger enters and makes an unusual request.