When several newcomers join the Anglo-Saxon community on thebeautiful Costa Blanca coast in southeastern Spain, all haunted by secrets in their pasts which are exposed only through ongoing interactions in a seemingly hedonistic lifestyle, drastic changes take place in their lives. Susan Downing, the world-renowned and beloved actress, lives with a horror no one can imagine; Jack Richards is obsessed with being a successful author, an obsession even his wife, Les, does not truly understand; Harold Smythe, a block-buster author, repeatedly lures Jack into impossible competitions; Pat Kelly lives under a sentence of death. Voluntary and involuntary disclosures of their various secrets move the characters closer to new lives until Pat unintentionally sends everyone hurtling toward disaster.