Timid Edward decides to by an allotment to get close to the attractive Amanda, but has to deal with ferocious site manager Bernie. Stars James Fleet, Joanna Monro and Jonathan Coy.

In the first of four comedies, James Fleet stars as a timid man who confronts mindless bureaucracy in Nick Warburton's Losing The Plot.

As he is passing a local allotment, Edward, a bashful man, speaks to an attractive plot owner, Amanda. He decides there and then that he too must apply for a plot. But doing so involves an interview with ferocious site manager Bernie, who runs the allotments with military rigour.

It's all looking unlikely until Edward reveals that his father was a local landscape horticulturalist, one Bernie has admired all his life. Edward joins the site, but it is only then that he springs a surprise on Bernie - one that leads to explosive confrontation.

The cast features James Fleet as Edward, Joanna Monro as Amanda and Jonathan Coy as Bernie.