On the face of it Leo Gannesh has everything - a successful London model agency, a comfortable life-style surrounded by the more conspicuous trappings of excess and a magnificent 15th century farmhouse in leafy Surrey. Surely everything a sixty year old man could want, including a beautiful, younger wife, former fashion model Angie Newton?

But something is missing and as the 'swinging sixties' fade into history he begins to feel out of step with the rest of the world - until the fateful summer evening when his life is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of the enigmatic Caroline Blanchard.