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"Professional student" and one-time English teacher Edward (Martin Clunes), is on the run. Wanted by the police for murder, he makes arrangements to leave England for Malagrena in South America, as he talks directly to the viewers and tells his story. Two years before, Edward had befriended Dennis (Neil Dudgeon), a morbidly boring public accountant who did the books for Edward's boss, Clive Phillips (Matt Bardock), the cocky, hideous "barrow boy" owner of the Clive Phillips School of English for Foreigners. Wealthy twit Dennis took a condescending shine to penniless-yet-Oxford-educated Edward, mainly for Edward's pose as a wine expert, a skill that didn't impress Dennis' voluptuous, sex-starved wife, Karen (Julie Graham), in the slightest: she just wanted Edward for a lover. Enthusiastically rising to her challenge, Edward seals the deal with Karen on a joint trip with Dennis to France, where Edward meets plumy Alison (Lindsay Duncan), a wan, moneyed aristocrat who's just to Edward's liking. Events spiral out of control, however, when Dennis is accidentally killed (...or is he), and the prospect of turning lover Karen into a wife crosses the amoral Edward's mind.
"Professional student" and one-time English teacher Edward (Martin Clunes), is on the run. Wanted by the police for murder, he makes arrangements to leave England for Malagrena in South America, as he talks directly to the viewers and tells his story. Two years before, Edward had befriended Dennis (Neil Dudgeon), a morbidly boring public accountant who did the books for Edward's boss, Clive Phillips (Matt Bardock), the cocky, hideous "barrow boy" owner of the Clive Phillips School of English for Foreigners. Wealthy twit Dennis took a condescending shine to penniless-yet-Oxford-educated Edward, mainly for Edward's pose as a wine expert, a skill that didn't impress Dennis' voluptuous, sex-starved wife, Karen (Julie Graham), in the slightest: she just wanted Edward for a lover. Enthusiastically rising to her challenge, Edward seals the deal with Karen on a joint trip with Dennis to France, where Edward meets plumy Alison (Lindsay Duncan), a wan, moneyed aristocrat who's just to Edward's liking. Events spiral out of control, however, when Dennis is accidentally killed (...or is he), and the prospect of turning lover Karen into a wife crosses the amoral Edward's mind.
