University student Carla was head over heels when she married her trendy, radical lecturer, but now she loathes everything about him - his moustache, his obsession with school league tables, and the way he scrapes the dirt from under his fingernails with a matchstick.

She looks back at how she travelled from a state of love to one of mild affection, then further to tolerance, indifference, and finally a sense of guilty loathing.