Described by Charlotte Jones herself as "a comedy about despair", Airswimming conjures warmth and hilarity from the most desperate of situations. Dora and Persephone " who somewhere along the plays non-linear narrative become Dorph and Porph " are incarcerated in an institution for the criminally insane.They arrive in the 1920s, at the hands of families who immediately forget them, and are not released for over 50 years.