Dr Tom Andrews has become somewhat disillusioned with his life in the Health Service, when a face from his past (Rosie) surfaces in his consulting room. A subsequent sexual scandal leads Tom and Rosie to leave everything behind and move to the South of Spain. Tom becomes driven by a mystical experience and a series of strange encounters. He is convinced that he is being directed to rebuild the crumbling dream of a long dead Spanish doctor. Tom has always felt that a carved wooden butterfly inherited from an ancestor is more than just an ornament, but he gradually learns that in some way his...