In this, the companion piece to Stephen Poliakoff's ' Joe's Palace', Poliakoff takes his characters into a dark & terrifying exploration of the past. Dame Maggie Smith, in the title role, is taken back to the time when she was a brilliant writer & critic, remembering parties & functions with the cultural elite. She is haunted by the memory of a supremely charming but subtly evil man, Greville (David Walliams), who feigned friendship, but had a devastating effect on her life. As in ' Joe's Palace', Danny Lee Wynter plays the role of Joe.