It is 1917 and the Kaiser's armies have nearly overrun the whole of Europe while Britain looks on, besieged inside her island borders, protected by the Royal Navy. After a devastating nervous breakdown, priggish young lawyer Arthur Blanchard seeks to recuperate by working as secretary to Sir Edward Grey at Fallodon Hall, Grey's isolated country house on the wet and windswept Northumberland coast. Instead of finding peace and quiet, Blanchard is thrust...