Synopsis When 35yearold Isabel Metcalfe a Scottish millworker emerges from an alien encounter she is distraught to discover her ankles have been chained by a metal unknown to science Her fiance and a metallurgist friend try to help her deal with her newfound permanent bondage all to no avail when she is suddenly kidnapped and flown to East Africa for a bizarre genetic engineering study She escapes with the assistance of a colleague but then has to return to Scotland put her life back in order Can she Does she Read and find out