Marky Brooker has a passion for maintaining the 'perfect family life'. But the reality of what's happening around him proves to be very different.
Marky (Jamie Foreman) runs a family building and renovation firm with wife Jessica (Elizabeth Berrington) and he's bought a wonderful Victorian house for them to live in. With his parents, Iris (Meg Wynn Owen) and Arthur (Trevor Peacock), moving in, it looks like the whole family is going to be together.
He may be the successful family builder, great at improving other people's lives, but things are falling apart in his own home. Marky's 17-year-old son, James (Michael Tucek), has disappeared before his first term at Oxford and doesn't seem to be coming back. His 11-year-old daughter, Lauren (Abbie Nichols), is increasingly dressing and behaving like a boy. And his parents may be smiling, but are they really happy to spend their retirement tucked away on the top floor of Marky's dream home?
But the Brookers never lose their sense of humour. They muddle through and, however hard things get, there's always another building job just around the corner.
