"A Japanese business is pleased at the purchase of land in East Anglia. Women labourers from a nearby village - bent double - pick potatoes and sing. Drifting back and forth through time the lives of women farm labourers are told. Val who has left her husband and daughters for another man. She yearns for her children but cannot leave Frank and decides that either herself or Frank must die to solve their problem. A ghost berates a farmer for selling the land she used to toil on. Is one of the workers an hermaphrodite? -- doollee.com