Summary

When taxi driver Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, he leaves Britain and takes his wife and children to live on the island of Phuket.

When taxi driver Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, he leaves Britain and takes his wife and children to live on the island of Phuket. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll.