A radio play with two characters. Derry, fourteen, has a chemically burnt face and has withdrawn from the world. He climbs into the garden of Mr. Lamb — an old man with a tin leg who lives alone, welcomes everyone, loves weeds and apples equally. Lamb teaches Derry that 'no people are usual' — that one's hurt need not define one. Derry runs home to fetch a ladder, but on returning finds Lamb has fallen from his apple ladder and died. The play ends with Derry's grief — and his transformation.