Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters, acquiring a growing sense of who he and his real family are.
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Ally and Tom visit Melvin to see evidence of his grandfather, Jewish cowboy star Tumbleweed Tim, whose silent-film career was ended by scandal. Meanwhile, Bea goes ape when Monkey goes missing, until Tom discovers that he has been donated to a charity worker.
Pete rings Tom to tell him he has a job interview on return to England, but Tom and his cousins are more intrigued by photographs showing Charles in uniforms of soldiers of both the North and South, suggesting that he changed sides at the end of the Civil War.
Tom arrives in California to stay with Al and Kitty, who make him very welcome--although he is inexplicably scared of their cat. Meanwhile, in the middle of the night he is awakened by a Skype from Monkey, who reports that Bea has lost her job.
Brought up in Ireland by his mother, Tom Chadwick returns to England when he and his sister Bea--who communicates through a monkey puppet--visit their father Keith and are told of a box that a great-aunt left them. Its contents include the photo of a distinguished.
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