Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in
the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss
Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into
conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore
Cadmus - from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into
the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
Soon, long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface,
drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . .
and murder.