The Durrell house is being turned into a boarding house, as Louisa converted her frustration over Spiros into the project. Alas, ballerinas Veronica and Dorothy prefer moving into Larry's room over paying board, which only uncle Basil, who wrecked his marriage, actually does, but proves high maintenance. Margo's ambition to be become a beautician is as unpromising, given her disastrous performing as hairdresser, as Gerry aspiring the owl 'Ulysses' he found to star in a 'real zoo'. Leslie deals with his beloved Daphne being married, and takes to the first proper guest: Lazaros Vangelatos, who turns out to be wanted for murder in Athens, yet soon convinces the clan his anti-fascist crime out of love is morally commendable? So when the commissioner brings two man to search the hotel, Louisa distracts her uniformed admirer while the boys rush to evacuate Lazaros, ultimately on a boat Spiros arranged, to Malta.
—KGF Vissers