Alison Steadman

In a town outside London, a dishonest American businessman intimidates a local nightclub owner who doesn't want to sell his property.

Just as British jockey Bob Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others beforehim, submits to the full, painful treatments of multiple injections and radiation, suffering as much or more from the cure as from the illness.

A posthumous request by their mutual best friend sends two twenty-something women on a very deliberate road trip across Britain to scatter his ashes.