“… there was something, something pretty terrible… Not just plain terrible. This was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it…” - Dorothy Parker (on turning fifty), The Middle or Blue Period. Fifty is a big age. Neglected artist, Clair Harkin, tries to hide from it on the Greek Island of Symi. But, of course, she is discovered. Actually, it turns out quite well for a while - besides falling in the sea she falls in love and in lust. She also falls out badly with daughter, Jess, makes up - then starts the cycle again. Back home, the year of being fifty is filled with demands from her controlling mother and her diva daughter and with the need to earn a living. And no word from her new lover. Clair swallows a lot of 'raisins', sweet and sour before she hits the next birthday. Will it be in England, Scotland, Florida or Greece. And with whom?