After being fired, Angela moves back to the small town in which she grew up. This is her chance to reassess things and get her life back on track, if her friends don’t ruin everything. Angela is tired of sleeping on couches. And it’s getting increasingly difficult to believe that making tea for Dane Bowers for no money constitutes a career in journalism. She heads home to be mammied for a while, to lick her wounds and reassess her plans.
Angela's group of friends is falling apart, which impacts her radio show and her village life.
Alison goes to Dublin for a job interview. She gets the job, briefly, before being sent packing back to Ballybeag and a whole lot of unresolved conflict.