At the end of a woodland lane by a river, a man is asleep at the wheel of a car. A young woman tapping gently on his window awakens him. He has no idea who he is, where he's come from or why he has apparently driven to this particular place? The young woman takes him back to her home, Baylam House. As the story unfurls he is mesmerisingly drawn to the extraordinary eccentricities of the most eclectic and curious group of people that live in and visit the house.