HARRY BAKER, professor of music at Dutchess Community College, New York State, sixties
ALFRED BAKER, Harry’s brother, sixties
GEMMA BAKER, Harry’s oldest child, thirty-nine
ELIZABETH BAKER, Harry’s other daughter, thirty-seven
PAUL BAKER, Harry’s son, thirty-two
SOPHIE, Paul’s wife, forty-one
ALICE BERRY, Harry’s girlfriend, fifty-four
TOM BERRY, Alice’s ex-brother-in-law, forty
All the characters are English except for Sophie, who was born in France.
SETTING
The present, a farmhouse in Western Connecticut, just across the border from New York State.