Children of a broken marriage, Richard and his estranged sister Natalie meet up after years of being apart. He is a strident, ambitious urban planner, a yuppie with a hectic career and social life. She leads a dull and lonely life, stuck in a dead end office job. During their evening together Natalie becomes upset and looks to Richard for comfort, and during the night they share a moment of affection which strays a little beyond the usual physical closeness of siblings. Richard is surprised by these events and Natalie appears regretful, a little ashamed, and even more confused.
Their lives take them in separate directions once more. While Richard's career abroad fulfils both his professional and social needs, Natalie still feels lost, uncertain and unloved, and Richard's absence in her life becomes a focus for all she does not have and all that she needs.
Some years later Richard returns home, and rather surprisingly, takes a low-paid public sector job. Natalie, whom he has almost forgotten, gets in touch with him again and invites him to meet her new husband Sinclair, a millionaire futurologist – brilliant, very eccentric, kind and generous, but also child-like in his innocence and detachment from the world in which he has become such a success. Richard is clearly stunned by the new life his sister leads, a life which she appears not to have completely embraced. She is however now far more self-confident and begins to lure Richard as he again becomes the object of her affections.
Soon they embark on a forbidden and passionate affair. Richard falls in love with Natalie, and against the backdrop of a glorious British summer, their relationship intensifies as they struggle to accept the aftermath of their actions. Richard becomes gripped with infatuation for his sister and matters come to a head when Natalie's husband Sinclair suspects that his wife is having an affair, little knowing that the lover he is so jealous of is his wife's own brother.
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