In the taxi to the airport they talk about their holiday and plan another meeting for Valentine's Day. He blames other people for how his life has turned out. During his absence from the others, he thinks about his life and decides that he has made no mistakes. Martin decides to leave the hotel after a fight with Jess. JJ meets a girl that saw his old band and they spend the night together. Out of frustration Jess gets drunk and the police have to take her back to the hotel. Jess bothers the girl and they have a fight. On the second day, Jess sees a girl who looks very similar to her lost sister Jen. One week later they're on a plane to Tenerife. Martin, Jess and JJ help Maureen to find a place for Matty, her son. Later, JJ decides that the four of them have to go on holiday for Maureen's benefit. At another TV show Jess admits that the angel story was not true. The show is a disaster and Martin loses his job. Thus Martin is fired from his cable TV "FeetUpTV!” but he receives a second chance by promising to his boss that the other three will be guests in his show. Linda uses the interview to attack Martin in the press. Although they are upset with Jess's behaviour, they decide to do the interview. Jess also promised Linda an interview with Martin, Maureen and JJ. The next morning they find out that Jess told a reporter, Linda, that they saw an angel that looked like Matt Damon. Martin, Maureen and JJ don't like the idea and they try to convince Jess out of talking to the press. Her idea is to confess to the press that they saw an angel who saved them from jumping. At the meeting, Jess suggests that they try to profit from the suicidal-report in the newspaper. Later Jess calls Maureen, and they decide to organise a meeting at Maureen's place. Afterwards, a reporter calls JJ wanting to know why they decided not to jump, but JJ refuses to discuss it. After the conversation, her father asks Martin to protect Jess and gives him money. Jess's father asks Martin to clear up the accusations and Martin denies that he slept with Jess. He goes out to get an early edition of the paper and sees the story about her 'suicide pact' with Martin, so Jess's "whole sex confession bit had been a complete and utter fucking waste of time." He is the Junior Secretary of Education and has a reputation to lose. He takes her to task because the whole thing is very awkward for him. Jess tells him that she slept with Martin, to avoid him finding out the truth of her attempted suicide. The next morning Jess's dad learns that the newspapers are publishing a story about Jess and Martin. She accuses Martin of cheating on her because he had left the party they'd both attended that evening without any explanation. After finding and talking to Chas they decide to go to Martin's place where they find Penny, who has obviously been crying. So they take a taxi and drive to the party they suppose Chas to be at. Jess's condition not to jump is that they help her to find her ex-boyfriend Chas. Thus a group of four unfortunate and very individual people forms. After telling their individual stories to the others, they decide to hold off on jumping and to help each other. Their plans for death in solitude, however, are ruined when they meet. They all want to commit suicide by jumping from the roof. It’s gotta be a full-on assault.Disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp, the lonely housewife Maureen (51 years old), the unsuccessful musician JJ and the rude teenager Jess (18 years old) meet at Toppers' House in London on New Year's Eve. “It’s like starting over,” Smalls told an organizer from the JFK8 warehouse. With only 20 days until the voting started, he knew that they were running out of time. Smalls worried that Wesley and her team - many of whom had been focused on helping with the first warehouse campaign - didn’t have a good handle on the problems and frustrations of workers inside their building. For the past several months, the union’s all-consuming focus had been winning the election at JFK8, which was five times the size of the 1,600-worker LDJ5 facility. But Smalls sensed that something was wrong. His movement suddenly had money and momentum. When the meeting ended, Smalls lingered by the front door. “I’m going to catch all your stragglers … day and night,” he told Wesley at the meeting. In February, he had been in a warehouse parking lot delivering food to workers when Amazon called the police and he was arrested. Because he was no longer an Amazon worker, Smalls wasn’t allowed on company property. I’ll be there.” - Chris SmallsĮventually, Smalls arrived and assured them that he was going to set up the tent by the bus stop, just as he had during the earlier campaign. “I’m going to catch all your stragglers … day and night.
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