The concept of The Mother is it is centered around a doting grandmother named May, and she lives in Northern England. Her husband dies on a family trip to London, and so decides to invest her time in her children's lives. Her children live in the city, and so she moves to a city is not all that familiar with. She is many miles away from her original house, and she feels like her life is over now. To keep herself young, she has an affair with a married man. His name is Darren, and Darren is half the age of May. Darrien is also renovating her son's home, and is her daughter's partner as well.
