The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. They inhabit a world where they are forced to say less. It's about what they say and how they say it; about things they can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons lemons lemons lemons lemons. As the Hush Law is passed, Bernadette and Oliver's relationship is put on the line as the wider issues of free speech and democracy create a new reality for them.