Retires Indian Army Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy made the decision to stay on in India after the British withdrew in 1947. They have since resided peacefully in a bungalow annex on the run-down Smiths Hotel, but their peace is about to be disturbed by the hotel owner, whose plans for the hotel-and their bungalow-will permanently change one corner of India that had remained forever England. Based on the Booker Award-winning novel by Paul Scott.