Meet local (ex-)brickie, Billy. Best mate to Danny, and toy-boy lover to Jenny,

Billy is fighting his own quest, to find his own absent, (and certainly not black) father.

To do so, (since his own mother is so tight-lipped), he decides to try to ‘remember everything’ for himself, and visit Rajid, the regression therapist we first encounter in “Danny.”

Purely to afford Rajid’s sky-high fees, he fakes depression and enrols on the “Access to Healing” scheme, whereby an NHS psychiatrist can refer him on to an “approved alternative therapist.”

Jumping through all the wrong hoops, (but singing all the right notes), Billy finds himself stuck with Jimmy, a repressed shrink, whilst with Rajid he regresses further back than he had planned and discovers that he is none other than the eminent (and surprisingly musical) Dr Benjamin Rush, controversial Father of American Psychiatry, Founding Father of the USA and Co-signer of the Declaration of Independence.

To his concern, Billy also discovers that Jenny is not a woman; that Benjamin Rush was a son-incarcerating sadist, nicknamed Dr Vampire, (who believed all black people just had a touch of leprosy that could be “cured” with peach juice); that his mother was not raped to conceive him (as she has always so heavily implied); that his own “family doctor” might have once lived up to his epithet more closely than previously suspected; that his unbelieving shrink is living more of a lie than even HE knows; that his regression therapist has some past of his own and that Billy just like Rush’s own son, is dangerously close to being on a fast track into the new modern local flagship Prince Regent psychiatric hospital, the walls of which he himself had once helped to build!


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