When Mr Shaw meets Caroline on his summer holiday she turns his world upside down. Caroline whose eyes a man could drown in. Caroline who likes a radish or two. Caroline who is in fact a donkey. To the outrage of his neighbours & the bemusement of his wife when Mr Shaw returns to the city he takes Caroline with him. She plays chess magnificently charms his colleagues & most importantly Caroline re-awakens in Mr Shaw an appetite for life he thought hed lost. But can this idyll last? Unfolding with the beauty & power of fable Caroline depicts a glorious Indian summer in one mans life.