At the age of seventy-five Audrey Monkton, a respectable Welsh pensioner, decides to steal a substantial amount of money from Nottswood Council, of which she is the mayor. Audrey flees to South America, specifically the Welsh settlement in Patagonia where she was born, and takes back ownership of her family farm.
Robert Fry, a forty-year-old British diplomat based at the embassy in Buenos Aires has been on a path of self-destruction for...