Ken Stuart once a small-town photographer, returns to his home town of Redcliffe Bay, in the West, after an absence of over thirty years. He left it as a fugitive from what then seemed to all concerned a shameful scandal; he finds it vastly changed and is unrecognised. The cheap day return is his way of effecting a personal adjustment and coming to terms with the haunting memories of what happened to him here in the year 1932, when he was caught up in a passionate with Lorna Morney-Suttcliffe, the wife of the most prominent citizen of Redcliffe Bay...