Banana

- Season 1

(2015)

19-year old gay Dean works as a post boy in an insurance firm and entertains colleagues with a chastity belt he claims a boyfriend in Bristol made him wear though he is relieved when a friend removes it. He asks middle-aged salesman Henry Best for advice regarding the flat he shares with his friend Freddie - the object of Henry's attention - since the boys are struggling to pay the rent to their gangster landlord and Dean does not have it in him to ask for money for sex. Fortunately for all concerned Henry has the solution.

Vivienne 'Scotty' Scott, carer for her ailing mother, becomes besotted with housewife Yvonne Burgess whom she sees in a supermarket, deeming her beautiful. Helped by Henry and Dean she tracks her down and begins stalking her. Yvonne's husband Gary angrily warns her off but later Yvonne arranges to meet Scotty, revealing that Scotty's attention to her has caused her to make a life-changing decision.

Sian and Violet meet in the shoe shop where Sian works and Violet is so smitten that she engineers several return visits to secure a date. Sian takes Violet to meet her mother Vanessa, also a Lesbian, before moving in with her but the extrovert Violet is a carefree party girl whilst the more serious Sian is hard-working and ambitious and they are soon arguing. Maybe Vanessa can offer her daughter words of advice to heal the situation.

Trans restaurant manageress Helen is plagued by ex-boyfriend Eddie, who refuses to believe that they are through and not only stalks her but uploads a racy film of her on the Internet. In a time of crisis Helen finds that her best friends are her family, who see her through it and give her a happy birthday.

18-year old law student Josh has a one night stand with predatory Freddie, mistakenly believing that he has found love, before returning to his small town home for the wedding of best friend Sophie. Josh explains to Sophie that she is too young to marry her dull bride groom and should aim to get more out of life. He was wrong about Freddie but, on the morning of the wedding, will Sophie believe that he is right about her?

Amy, a neurotic who worries over the slightest thing, goes on a blind date with policewoman Kay but her obsessive behaviour gets the evening off to a bad start. Fortunately Kay is sympathetic - even when Amy interrupts their walk home to greet a 'Big Issue' seller she was afraid had died - and the evening does not end in disaster.

Handsome hunk Aiden and the less good-looking Frank are thrown together when they are part of a threesome with a man they met in a club. Next morning they spend time together and get on very well, Frank suggesting that they could be a couple. Despite Frank's view that looks are not everything Aiden is not convinced as he regards himself as out of Frank's league and they can never be anything more than friends.

Contract cleaner Vanessa is clearing out a building, helped by Nigerian Zara, who speaks no English. Despite the language barrier Vanessa deduces that Zara is being sexually abused by Jonjo, who runs the hostel where she and other girls , all illegal immigrants, live but knows that if she tells the police Zara will be deported. They find a wad of money and Vanessa tells Zara to travel to a friend in London with it but when Jonjo returns with the other girls she devises another plan to rectify matters.