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Dennis Potter's deceptively simple tale relates the activities of 7 seven-year-olds (played by adult actors) at play in a seemingly idyllic and ever-youthful world. The children play, fight and fantasize. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries, a microcosm of adult interaction. All the children gang up on the terrified "Donald Duck" who abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays his own dangerous game of pyromania which ends in tragedy.

Joan, a nurse who has lived out since she was 17, is moving again. Her life is in a rut and she wants to clean it out by moving away to some place where she can be alone… a new address… a new telephone number… a different neighbourhood. But as she takes out the boxes, she realises it will be different this time. She's not just moving out, she's moving on.

Boxes explores human relationships at its mundane level- living from day to day, struggling to find that spark of commonality. Joan, on the threshold of 30, can't move forward as she can't look backward. Or is it because she has never left the past in the first place. Pat, trying to break through and make contact, to involve others in her life and herself in others' existence, gets more than she bargained for. Life- existing in enclosed spaces, relating with people you don't plan to relate with, learning to relate to those you wish you could.

It's a familiar situation. Alex Teo, a young determined salesman, knocks on the door of Mrs Katherine Leong's flat. He's here to sell, to make his commission. Her money is worth his time. Never mind her idiosyncrasies, she's a customer. After all, "sales is like that." Mrs Leong doesn't disappoint. She buys it all. With the right kind of persuasion, she parts willingly with her cash. His time is worth more than her money. As it goes, in all familiar situations, nothing that's worth anything comes easy. Katherine, delivers more than Alex bargained for. And Alex, true to all salesmen, promises more than he can give.