It is summer, 1928. When invited by her publisher to assist a well-respected M.P. write his memoirs, Julia is at first reluctant to concentrate on anything other than her next novel; however, circumstances(involving among other things unexpected plumbing) conspire to change her mind and she finds herself at once guest and employee at the great man's rather bohemian household. Almost immediately she encounters memories from the past, of a rather unsettling nature ...