They thought a weekend in Paris would be just the thing to put the spark back in their marriage.
A chance to rediscover their old honeymoon haunts and spend time reconnecting away from all the grind of their jobs and domestic life.
However, Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan) Burrows 30th anniversary celebrations have not gone to plan.
The hotel hasn’t changed in three decades and Meg refuses to stay there as a consequence.
A stony silence envelops and a trip straight back to the gare de Nor looks on the cards until Meg impulsively seeks out a room at a five-star luxury hotel.
All they have left is a Presidential Suite that Tony Blair once slept in, but realising it’s his only option to keep the peace and have a shot at intimacy Nick reluctantly agrees “as long they’ve changed the sheets”.
Even then Nick and Meg continue to bicker, as she wants to forget their life back home for 48 hours and he wants to discuss the bathroom tiles.
“You really make my blood boil like nobody else,” she opines. “It’s the sign of a deep connection,” he chirps back.