Love Counts

About the show

Patsy Bear, a boxer who cannot read or recognize numbers reliably, meets Avril Ainger, a mathematics lecturer. She helps him learn basic arithmetic, though Patsy is more interested in sex. Avril discusses her abusive first marriage and asks Patsy to leave boxing; after she cuts up his gear, he becomes ill and falls into a coma. His doctor says conversation may restore his memory. In the final scene, Avril pushes him in a wheelchair along the street where they met, and they repeat their counting routine.