Simon’Camish, an embittered, diftident barrister, would not have particularly | noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not ‚ been asked to drive her home one night . . after a dinner-parfy. Yet at onetime she had been notorious, her name constantly ín the news. Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. And despite all the efforts of her friends, she refuses fo budge from her slum house in a decaying district. Simon ís drawn info her affairs when her husband takes legal action to re-open fhe question of custody of the children. And, whilst the precise nature of fhe ties eludes him, he comes to realize fhat Rose and her Greek are inextricably bound to each other. :