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The affair of the planter's wife running off with her driver had been a burning topic in the British High Commission and clubs, and had even occupied several discreet paragraphs in the Straits Times. It is 1930s Malaya and Valerie Mitchell, desperate to escape an unhappy marriage to Stuart, a rubber planter, instigates an adulterous affair with her Muslim chauffeur, Osman, and offers herself up to him at the plantation bungalow