A bored and frustrated Englishman leaves his fiancee and takes his model airplane business to France. There, he is immediately contacted by a beautiful, mysterious Frenchwoman who teaches English, and whose son is a Maoist revolutionary.

A factory manager releases the keys of his premises to thugs who threaten him with a gun. He is left physically unharmed but what about his mind?

Old friends realize that life and age has worn away the reactionary socialist principals they shared in their youth.

Set in Ireland where the Catholic Church has been superseded by a repressive order with new ideas. When a group of Irish monks rebel, a Vatican official is sent to bring order once more.