Isabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work has been exhibited in the Tate Gallery. Growing up in London, Sudan and Wales, with a cold and distant father and an isolated mother, Adonis explores the nature of identity, culture and desire as shaped by her childhood impressions of her parents.
Life in a small Welsh town can be pretty dull, but Angharad's summer becomes a lot more interesting when she meets the captivating Faith, a new arrival at her local church. However, Angharad's crush takes a dark turn when she discovers Faith's hidden life running drugs across the border to sell in Wales.