Prior to her death, along with Arnold Bluhm she has been engrossed in investigating about a new drug, Dypraxa, which apparently is being tested on Kenyans. Yet, through a smartly edited nonlinear narrative, we later find out that there is nothing that frivolous or domestic about Tessa’s murder.
“They spent the night at Lodwar,” he says to Justin when delivering the news of Tessa’s death, “They shared a room, Justin.” Word on the street is, Tessa has been cheating on his husband with Arnold, and Sandy Woodrow-Justin’s colleague-sure adds fuel to the fire. She has been traveling with Arnold Bluhm, a doctor of African descent from Belgium, but he is nowhere to be found. And perhaps helpless to her charm, beauty and persistence, Justin agrees.Ī few minutes into the movie we come to understand that Tessa has died somewhere on the bank of Lake Turkana. They haven’t even known each other well when she asks him point blank to take her to Africa, where he is to be stationed. Passionate, outspoken and aggressive, Tessa is the complete opposite of Justin. But Justin is a diplomat working for the British High Commission, and on one of his assignments he has to deliver a speech in place of his boss Bernard Pellegrin, and that’s where he meets Tessa. If Justin Quayle had his way, he would spend his days in his garden-plucking the weeds out, applying pesticide, watering the plants.
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