Main Characters ( left to right )
J.J
He is an American who came to London with his girlfriend Lizzy. He was part of a band called the “Big Yellow”. However as the band broke up, his girlfriend dumped him immediately. After the break up of the band he moved to London and started working as a pizza delivery guy. J.J hates his job and his life as he arrives at Topper’s Tower. Although he arrives at the tower to deliver pizza for a party group, his temptation and fear of committing suicide drives him to the Top of the Towers where he meets the other three individuals.
Maureen
She is a 51 year old mother of her disabled and fully paralyzed son Matty. As her life revolves around her son she has had to sacrifice her freedom, her job and friends for her son. They live in an apartment that Maureen tries to decorate as though a fully energetic teenage boy lives in that apartment. As she has isolated herself from everyone she decides that suicide is the only way out of her problems. On New Year’s eve she takes Matty to a Nursing home and set’s out to Topper’s Tower to commit suicide where she encounters Martin and later on Jess and J.J.
Jess Crichton
Jess is an seventeen/eighteen year old that does not get along with her parents very well. Since her sister Jen ran away, Jess gets accused by her mother for her sister’s decision. Jess’s father is a politician and due to that reason she hates Martin as he represents everything she hates in his father. She does not have many friends as she often irritates people with her policy of speaking her mind with no regards to other’s feelings. She arrives on Topper’s Tower to commit suicide as she broke up with her ‘boyfriend’ Chas. Jess’s possessiveness and belief that Chas is her boyfriend has often led her to try to kill Chas and herself. She confesses that she has tried to take her life before as she believes everybody hates her.
Martin Sharp
Martin was a celebrity with a perfect life that consisted of his wife and two daughters. However his life is ruined as he is caught sleeping with a 15 year old. As he is released from the prison he realizes that he got fired from the show “Rise and Shine with Penny and Martin” and his wife has divorced him. As his popularity gets stripped from him he takes up a job as a T.V show host of a low popularity cable channel called as ‘FeetUp!TV’. Martin then starts an affair with his previous co hostess Penny. He arrives at Toppers Tower to commit suicide as he believes that he has no more dignity and pride as people constantly call him names for his mistake of sleeping with a 15 year old.
He is an American who came to London with his girlfriend Lizzy. He was part of a band called the “Big Yellow”. However as the band broke up, his girlfriend dumped him immediately. After the break up of the band he moved to London and started working as a pizza delivery guy. J.J hates his job and his life as he arrives at Topper’s Tower. Although he arrives at the tower to deliver pizza for a party group, his temptation and fear of committing suicide drives him to the Top of the Towers where he meets the other three individuals.
Maureen
She is a 51 year old mother of her disabled and fully paralyzed son Matty. As her life revolves around her son she has had to sacrifice her freedom, her job and friends for her son. They live in an apartment that Maureen tries to decorate as though a fully energetic teenage boy lives in that apartment. As she has isolated herself from everyone she decides that suicide is the only way out of her problems. On New Year’s eve she takes Matty to a Nursing home and set’s out to Topper’s Tower to commit suicide where she encounters Martin and later on Jess and J.J.
Jess Crichton
Jess is an seventeen/eighteen year old that does not get along with her parents very well. Since her sister Jen ran away, Jess gets accused by her mother for her sister’s decision. Jess’s father is a politician and due to that reason she hates Martin as he represents everything she hates in his father. She does not have many friends as she often irritates people with her policy of speaking her mind with no regards to other’s feelings. She arrives on Topper’s Tower to commit suicide as she broke up with her ‘boyfriend’ Chas. Jess’s possessiveness and belief that Chas is her boyfriend has often led her to try to kill Chas and herself. She confesses that she has tried to take her life before as she believes everybody hates her.
Martin Sharp
Martin was a celebrity with a perfect life that consisted of his wife and two daughters. However his life is ruined as he is caught sleeping with a 15 year old. As he is released from the prison he realizes that he got fired from the show “Rise and Shine with Penny and Martin” and his wife has divorced him. As his popularity gets stripped from him he takes up a job as a T.V show host of a low popularity cable channel called as ‘FeetUp!TV’. Martin then starts an affair with his previous co hostess Penny. He arrives at Toppers Tower to commit suicide as he believes that he has no more dignity and pride as people constantly call him names for his mistake of sleeping with a 15 year old.