Six weeks after meeting, Clara and Archie are married.Ī prolonged flashback explores Clara’s childhood and her relationship with Ryan Topps, an unappealing but rebellious boy in her high school.
There, he meets Clara Bowden, the 19-year-old daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, the devout Jehovah’s Witness Hortense Bowden. Reenergized, he drives past an “End of the World” New Year’s party and decides to stop by.
He is inadvertently saved by Mo Hussein-Ishmael, the neighborhood butcher, who insists that his property is not “licensed” for suicides Archie takes this as a sign of his own redemption. His Italian wife, Ophelia, who suffers from an unknown mental illness, has just divorced him after 30 years of marriage. Archie Jones, a middle-aged Englishman, is slumped in a car in Northern London on January 1, 1975, attempting to commit suicide by suffocating in the fumes.
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