This is the story of seven strangers, each escaping reality, who meet by chance in a tropical paradise that holds more promise and more peril than any one of them could have imagined. Joanna: From the gloom of a London doctors' practice, she takes a spontaneous holiday to a Caribbean world of scorching sun, silver sand, and a tantalizingly beckoning blue sea. "The world is full of hypochondriacs," warns her boyfriend, urging her to keep quiet about her job. But Jo is not the only one concealing the truth. Among the enchanting and diverse bunch of characters she meets, it turns out one is playing a deadly game of charade.