Brilliant Cambridge graduate Henry Browning is offered the post of headmaster at an English country boarding school by leading board members Cecil and son Philip Stockton, rose garden entrepreneurs. Henry accepts, thrives and becomes the lover of Philip's fiancée since childhood, Charlotte Harris. The affair gets out and leads to an accidental shooting. Henry's need for a suitable kidney donor enforces the sudden disclosure of major family secrets, with wide and surprising results.
—KGF Vissers