Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the
trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage.
But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed
treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to
others, he questions, as Auden wrote, 'What authority
gives/existence its surprise.' Taken in by his parents, businessman
Adrian and successful lawyer Lyndsay, to protect his wife and child
from radiation, back in his childhood garden he faces the
contradiction between the values of his conservation work and those
of his wife, an advertising agency executive. While threat of
projects to build a nuclear reactor and drain the country's vital
wetlands preoccupy Paul, the strange state of his existence leads
his mother to face her own past. With Paul cured and normality
apparently returned, his parents take a holiday in Mexico to fulfil
the archaeological vocation his father missed. The consequence of
this is the final surprise of passionate existences.
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