A couple struggle to stop their marriage from falling apart, and an encounter with a Lebanese cook with a colourful past hardly helps matters. Sally Potter's drama, which sees the cast speaking in rhyming couplets reminiscent of Shakespeare, starring Joan Allen, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian, Shirley Henderson and Sheila Hancock.

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.