Ted Wallace is an old sour womanising cantankerous whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet & drama critic but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper months behind on his alimony payments & disgusted with a world that undervalues him Ted seeks a few months repose & free drink at Swafford Hall the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted...