Donna Burgess is suffering a crisis of identity, following a startling revelation made by her "mother" on her deathbed. Donna's attempts at handling this have only brought on hallucinations and delusions. The most precious things in her life, the facades of Europe's finest buildings, soon appear to be falling victim to heartless swapping over by forces unknown. She resolves to fight back, but will anybody take her seriously or even lend a helping hand? Fifty years earlier, young Peter Kerr re-encounters his twin sister Jane, who was killed in a freak accident when they were very young, but...

Arthur Narone is desperate to forget one awful episode from his sorry, post-war orphan's childhood, but he simply cannot. Perhaps that is why he has taken to late-night joyriding around the streets and hillsides of Nice in expensive borrowed cars. But that largely harmless pastime has got him into far greater trouble than a caution or two from the local gendarmerie. Arthur has been talent-spotted by the lowest of the Riviera underworld, and he is made an ""offer he can't refuse"" by the similarly press-ganged leader of a makeshift bunch of putative bank robbers. The ""encouragement"" for his...