Anna Morgan's West Indian childhood has become a dream, remote from the English provincial theatre digs where she drifts through life as the tour goes on England is cold, dark and ugly and when she is picked up by Walter Jeffries and he is kind to her she responds like a flower to the sun How can she do other than fall in love with someone who offers warmth and care? And what can she do when Walter, still being kind, according to his lights, goes off?