One anonymous woman- with a dream.
Four unrelated men- all in receipt of an identical solicitor-s letter urging them to travel to the town of Keswick in the heart of England-s Lake District. A washed-up alcoholic City banker, a time-share crook living on the Spanish Costas, the neurotic gay owner of a B&B and a destitute hippy living on his wreck of a boat are all inexplicably summoned. There is the promise of -something to their advantage- but even without this enticement all have good reason to want to escape their current everyday situations. The four men-s converging journeys, by air, road, sea, and mountain paths produce four very different stories. Each has its own cast of eccentrics and grotesques, and a few saints and saviours, laughable disasters and chaotic episodes of high farce. There are also unexpected moments of sensitivity and pathos and as the characters reach their journeys- ends it-s clear none of their lives will ever be quite the same.
And one moun
