He spends the early days of the pandemic in a 24-hour McDonald’s in Sai Kung while his wife Sue is home with their sickly baby son, Sam. More than a third of people newly living with a partner believed that two months of lockdown felt like the equivalent of two years of commitment.

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Each diner, worker, and loiterer is representative of everyone else and is yet still wonderfully distinctive. I think in normal times, if this had happened, people would have been, like, ‘Well, that’s so quick, why are you rushing into things? Then they had to make a big decision – as outlined by the deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries when she urged non-cohabiting couples to “test the strength of their relationship” and move in together for lockdown.

Written by Danny Spring, the romantic drama was produced by Forster alongside Lilydale Films’ Melanie Rowland and was shot in studio and on location in Victoria’s Yarra Valley with the support of VicScreen and Screen Australia. During the first lockdown, there was a period where we essentially spent four months completely in each other’s company every day, and we both were working from home. Lockdown Lovers is a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in two regions, Asia and Europe.The episodic cut of the low budget movie that I wrote (Lockdown Lovers) is now TX-ing in weekly webisodes on Lilydale Films' Flunk Channel on YouTube. After matching, they went on Zoom dates and got to know each other before meeting up in a park just outside of Glasgow. The novel reminds us of our undying capacities for contact and closeness even at times of pandemic, when they seem threatened like never before. In the novel, present-day John remembers spending time in the United College Library Archives at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, looking through Hennessy’s letters from Hong Kong.

Their reaction is almost comical because we have all probably been in this place sometime during the last year and a half.As councillor Phoebe puts it: it is “a fight to cherish the individuality they’re asking us to mask”. Since the start of the pandemic, thousands of people have found themselves in turbo relationships, forced by lockdown measures to speed up the conventional rhythms of commitment. Phoebe is a twenty-something Hong Kong activist and recently elected local councilor, Kwok-ying is a government health official, and the pangolin is one of the mammals reported as being at the root of the virus.