Stone Boatman Sam Appleyard at the age of thirty is a man whom the vicissitudes of life have left unscathed. He has raffish friends and is popular but his role is that of approving spectator. Completely out of character he steals a stone statuette of a 14th century gondolier and christens it Basil Chutney. Immediately, he and his life seem to change - for the better at first. He dumps the girl he was contemplating marrying, sells his Volvo...