Yuri is a big success at his public school, Trollope's Independent, and seems destined for greatness, but when he fails to get into Oxford University he has to adjust his ambitions. Doing work on the side for his gangster uncle seems like harmless fun to begin with but before long he finds himself deep in trouble. The dominant girls in his life compete only with the nagging of his over ambitious mother when it comes to being a permanent irritation, so when he gets the chance to break free and be lead singer in a campus rock band he grabs it with both hands. Set in the liberating seventies when anything seemed possible, The Songs We Sang At Trollopes takes a nostalgic look back to a time of guilty pleasures and inappropriate behaviour, when Greenham Common provided the hope for a better age and lying down in front of bulldozers seemed like a good way to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem.