Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes phot
ographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When
he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, bel
ieving she will grow to love him in time.
Alone and desperate, Miranda must s
truggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her cap
tor, and so gain her freedom.
