Joe, Al, the Alien and the Girl with the Thistledown Hair

Two lonely cowboys meet two traumatised women. Is love the answer, or just more pain?

Joe is a diamond, brilliant and multi-faceted and probably on the scale; Alan is pure gold, incorruptible and precious, and possibly malleable.

Maisie has been beaten into a woman hunkered down and waiting for the second shoe to fall; Claire has suffered a tragedy and as especially fragile has therefore been hounded by the British Press.

High in the mountains of Montana a liberal Brit spouts her views about The American Dream.

Will it be WWIII or just an interesting interlude?