The five Harvey sisters - Morgan, Pandora, Cressida, Thisby and Teresa, are unconventional, unschooled and oddly named by their famous detective writer father and fragile mother. Still living in the comfort of the rural family home, apart from Pandora who has done the impossible and managed to bag herself a husband, the eccentric sisters are largely left to their own devices, living at a distance from the outside world.So when Gregory turns up on their doorstop unexpectedly one afternoon, his car having broken down outside their front door, Morgan declares it fate and welcomes the somewhat stunned Gregory into the female dominated household. Plied with tea and toast he is rather flabbergasted but captivated by Thisbe in her slightly inappropriate skiing trousers, Cressida's desperate attempts to hide the stockings and snow boots in the Room and Morgan's blunt honesty.