London, 1920s: Mandy Rosental, the horse-racing obsessed daughter of a successful Jewish businessman, meets bookish-but-beautiful Alex Hunterswood. Infatuated, Mandy follows Alex to Oxford University, where Mandy's champagne-fueled decadence and growing involvement in radical Zionist politics, lead to a tragedy of entanglements which will irrevocably change one life... and end the other.
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