Basil Fawlty has reincarnated in Eastbourne as Harry Pope, he enters into a disastrous partnership with a Californian businessman, and buys a 28 bedroom hotel. He employs Polish, not Spanish, staff, blocks the purchase of a £10,000 ornamental fountain for the front garden, and enters into a hate relationship with Volvo estate drivers. He discovers that his partner has financial feet of clay, his housekeeping staff don't know how to use a duster, and his general manager could give lessons on spying to James Bond. Read, enjoy, laugh, and cry with him during his trials and tribulations, and then want to learn what happens next.