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Threads of family relationships are highlighted by tension when a beautiful elder daughter returns home from Oxford and a militant younger daughter announces that she has found her ideal in a man of another race. This play does not focus on the pros and cons of foreign education or relationships with foreigners but on how family structure can absorb the shocks of such foreign events and still survive. 

The play is about a couple, John and Helen, who are in their thirties and have been married for 10 years. Helen, romantic but lonely, attempts to rekindle their relationship. But John has other things in mind; like his job. As if the burden isn't enough, they have a neighbour who has a habit of gargling at inopportune moments.