The piece is a sequence of love songs. The choir is in a bar, late at night, singing love songs to each other. It's a karioke night without the karioke machine. It's a hen night which coincides with, & becomes involved with, a stag night. It’s a meeting of LA (Lovers Anonymous). It is, though, perhaps most like a certain kind of gathering in Georgia (the ex-Russian Georgia) in which polyphonic songs are sung & drink is consumed; the toastmaster, or tamada, proposes a series of toasts which introduce the songs & provide an excuse for the endless drinking.

The piece is about what you tell your friends about your love life, & how they react. It's not so much about love itself as about how love affects your relationships with your friends, with the rest of the world. The sequence of songs is interwoven with three (spoken) stories.

There is a crooning competition – one singer tries to seduce another either by speaking the words of a love song, or by crooning the tune (without the words). The songs move from the emotional Song for a Dark Girl, by Mike Henry (lyrics by Langston Hughes), through the frisky Flame And Water (lyrics by James Berry), featuring the signing abilities of Adey Grummet, to the touching solo version, by Melanie Pappenheim, of Petula Clark’s Downtown.