 All are in their own individual ways unsatisfied with their lives and their relationships.When their vicar falls ill, just before a planned 24-hour excursion ashore to Jerusalem, his place is taken by the inexperienced Reverend Babcock, a man more used to mixing with the youth of his own slum parish in Huddersfield.On the first night Robin, a precocious nine-year-old and grandson of one of the couples, suggests a walk to the Garden of Gethsemane.