Rebecca was a repressed teenager who became the perfect preacher's wife for 15 years. But dissatisfaction with her uneventful life leads her into adventures on a nude beach in Greece, to jobs in the African bush -- no pun intended -- to Bangkok, the sex capital of the world, and to experiments with group sex and brotherly love.
Daniel seems to have gotten over the death of his wife to cancer after two years and started to pick up the threads of his political life again, something that once dominated his life to the full. Aunt Marina has just lost her job as a shop assistant, finding that after a lifetime dominated by sibling and sibling offspring care, that she is free to determine her own life, especially when she discovers the person who ruined her is living the good life that she deserved.
He is a poker professional who calculates odds to two decimal places. She is a ditzy blond who believes it takes skill in winning at the slot machine. It has to be a relationship doomed from the start.