Eskimo Day plot
When their children, Neil (Benedict Sandiford) of Blackburn, Pippa Lloyd (Laura Howard) of Cheltenham and Malcolm Judd (Grant Warnock) of London, all leave home to study at Cambridge University, three families find themselves in crisis. . Shani, Neil's mother, has embarked on a slew of superstitious rituals, and Pippa's father Hugh wants his daughter to graduate from Cambridge like him and constantly pesters her with questions about her current track record. He blames his wife for Pippa's irritated answers. Malcolm's mother is traveling on the next bus after her son because he has forbidden her to assist him.