Tomos has sold his pub, bought a house, and enrolled as a mature university student. He is basically a quiet man in his 40s, but during his time at university, life gets a little more eventful. Two lively and fun-loving twenty somethings, Mary and Carol, move in as lodgers with Tomos. Mary soon falls in love with him and constantly seeks his affections. Mary aside, Tomos has plenty of other extra-curricular distractions to contend with before gathering: his ensuing divorce from estranged wife Mag, a bad LSD trip during an academic social, and unforgettable Brecon Jazz Festival, a fight with a philandering acquaintance, and the formation of his own jazz band, Tomos' Lot. This is an entertaining adult romance set in a small Mid-Wales university town during the mid 1980s.