📕 When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour with an Action Man - in a frantic bid to prevent him from strangling his wife - she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets.
There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and Letitia, his perpetually naked wife, to Dodo, a care-in-the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen...