Adul]t bro!\t.hers Mar+%k and Colin Po/llock still live with th!.eir `parents Frank and Mavis Polloc.k in*( a sm?all a colle'cti_-ve depressed /and unha@'ppy ex ^istence. The three men o]+f the hou-#;sehold#_./ are all
 on the dol/e, each# doing lit'^;[t($ le to find gainfu;l e^("mpl [oyment. Betwe$en the brothe)rs, Mark is the [-sm_]?>art aleck,@(+ wh&,o %]calls*
',his parent s by t#h/eir g$iv# en names to >irk >@the;]m! , an^,\%d who@@[+ hangs out wit`?h [s Mark; t ells him that %a neighb"o+ \rhood g"`irl n<`amed Hay??ley is \,^*interested him. The fa'+
m/; (ily rarely socia lizes;< /`w'=^ith`, Ma?vis' sister a'_"!nd brother-@]$in-law#-, B %ar@b\;_%ara and?[" John,[ <who live/* a middle ?to: upper mi.=*.ddle#: class >&an_*d se.;emi=*!#ngly perfe#+>ct existe+nce in the.=;" sub-_urbs of:` C higw^,ell. Alth,`ough not t_%^elling th%)em t:[o their ":face, John; dislikes his relations^. by marriage, ;?!;believ_?ing espe'*cially.]_ Mark -t- o b +e bra..- the su rfa\[(ce;]<',,_ m)+ost s, pecifically@ the true hap+ piness of the marr?iage ^:betwee*n Barbara and John:?, a@nd_)# what C*_olin is truly\ lookin^g for to \,?@be happy i]