Art (Kris Marshall)

Arthur Chapel is a talented independent low-budget filmmaker. And like so many great artists before him, the establishment fails to recognise his genius. They don't even return his calls.

Not that he listens to criticism. No, Art carries on regardless, irrepressible and indefatigable, working in a cinema by day and writing screenplays by night. He is so totally immersed in the world of film that he assumes real life plays by the same rules.

He mistakes the most trivial everyday incidents for the most exciting celluloid adventures. Not unlike Don Quixote tilting at windmills thinking they're giants, Art doesn't see a neighbour taking the bin bags out, he sees a man disposing of his wife.

Everywhere he looks, he sees a story. And no matter what evidence there is to the contrary, Art has the kind of fervent imagination to twist the facts to fit the fiction.