The media feeds well on events of people gambling, winning and becoming millionaires overnight. Little information, if any, is broadcast of how those lucky winners learn to live in a world of the rich. Crippled Bronwen Dew, a resident of a nursing home, plays the national lottery and selects the winning numbers. From an extremely humble background, she is unaccustomed to having plenty at her disposal. She has three close companions and an intellectually deprived daughter to help and guide her. Her daughter is apt to cause disaster. As a group, they take a cruise and return to live at her humble, terraced family house. It is renovated to the highest degree of finery. For some time they live happily there, in the lap of luxury, until circumstances demand a change. Bronwen finds that being wealthy does not provide a life devoid of trauma and sadness. Resultantly, her companion, an expert accountant and manager of her vast fortune, plans a long-touring holiday. Tragedy strikes The journey leads to death...
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