Roth, a parent himself, also enjoyed forging a relationship with BillMilner and newcomer Eloise Laurence, the two young actors cast as Archie's children Jed and Skunk.
The place is provincial England, the time is the nineteen-eighties, and the hero is Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner), a shy and studious boy who lives with his mother among the Plymouth Brethren, a religious sect.