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 façades 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 has come back to be with him in spirit. She offers her devotion and her "guidance" throughout his childhood years. Some way into the future, Peter's elder brother Robert, now seventy-one, has enlisted the help of a regular volunteer at his new Residential Home. Mrs Donna Wilkins is happy to hear and transcribe his "little tale of myself and my family." But everything is not as homely as it seems...