After a robbery gone wrong at the local sandwich shop, the paranoid Willow seeks shelter in the flat of the insecure Pillow. Willow is just in time to meet Pillow’s newly ordered "closet-mother”, ”model Abberdab 600”, "a mechanical mother especially designed for ""young filthy women in two-roomed flats with no bath". While romantic feelings develop between our anti-hero and anti-heroine, it is discovered that the closet-mother harbour alcoholic and rebellious tendencies and seems suspiciously human in all her imperfection.