Tess Frant and Becky Vitali are of the generation that reckons it can have everything. High flyers in the high-octane world of London's high-finance, they move through the opportunists, the short-termists, the sharks, the bullies and the very, very rich to face many choices, not least the one presented by biology; children.

Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker who suddenly abandons his wife and family to become a painter.