A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby the heir to
the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger Brat Farrar has been carefully coached on
Patrick's mannerisms appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life up to
his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if
Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten
to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life...
