Widowed sci-fi writer, Simon Carswell, burdened by guilt from the past, can't understand why his brilliant A A widowed sci-fi writer can't understand why his young granddaughter has taken against him after her mother goes off with her latest lover. Accused of a neighbour's murder, he goes on the run, as does the girl after killing, in self defence, her mother's paedophile boyfriend. Will they meet up... and can the authorities be persuaded of the the truth?