An aristocratic English couple move to Kenya as Europe plunges into the Second World War, and join a colony of other bored and bitter expats leading a hedonistic life of sex and drugs. The wife soon gets into the swing of things by having an affair, but when her lover is murdered her husband becomes the prime suspect. Fact-based drama, starring Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, John Hurt and Sarah Miles.