Clive and Iuliia had a tumultuous relationship fueled by Clive's paranoia. Iuliia had fallen in with Clive as he showered her with dates, gifts, and jewellery.
Iuliia and Clive, had lived for years in Stalybridge, far away from the sandy white beaches of Grenada. Their days were dreary and uneventful. To outsiders they were happy enough. However this wasn't enough for Clive. Aided and abetted by his twin Dave, Clive had ambitions and soon achieved the glory of being a fell running champion. Clive loved the attention it brought him. However Dave demanded that Clive help him and pay him back or he would expose Clive's cheating. Clive had tried to say no to Dave's request, but Dave blackmailed him and Clive took this seriously after he received a warning in the form of a short ban from racing due to someone reporting another minor technical mistake by Clive. He was trapped! He had to do whatever Dave wanted.
Clive looked for ways out of the mess he now found himself in. A spark or hope had been kindled inside of Clive after watching an episode of Death in Paradise. In that episode, the characters had moved to a small island to start a new life and Clive thought that it was the perfect way to escape the his dark secrets in the UK. A plan was born.
Though Iuliia was originally hesitant, Clive persisted. His enthusiasm had a special power over Iuliia and soon the couple had made their way to Grenada, 4,000 miles away from their UK home.
The plan had been for Iuliia to give birth to their baby on a beach in St Lucia, a dream of natural beauty that bordered on foolishness. But little did they know that Iuliia's waters would break unexpectedly while they were travelling on a boat between the island in the middle of the night.
When baby Louisa was born, the couple were still at sea and their dreams of sharing a picture perfect Instagram moment were dashed as Clive had forgotten to charge his mobile phone. With no doctors or other medical personnel present, the couple made a huge error. This error would later make them feel like prisoners.
With no one to confirm Iuliia was the child's natural mother, they were trapped on the island and both unable to escape or to gain an illusive right to citizenship there. Their own dreams appearred to had been dashed and Clive and Iuliia had unwittingly placed their own lives in danger. Dave now knew that they had left the country. Faced with a maxed credit card bill of £6000 time was running out for the couple before they would be deported without their child and into the path of Dave keen to reap his revenge on Clive for daring to try and escape his clutches.
Clive was faced with a dilemma. Clive, knew that he could not trust the authorities with his DNA. Not only that but he knew that his DNA could lead to his terrible secret being uncovered. Or more correctly the secret of his identical twin brother Dave that Clive had spent so many years diligently trying to cover up. Nor could he let the fact that Iuliia wasn't in fact married to Clive and instead had given her vows unwittingly to Dave be exposed. In desparation Clive decided to try and bully the British authorities into getting a waiver for the DNA test, by selling his story to a friendly journalist.
Many years ago Clive had previously been banned from driving after going down a double carriage way the wrong way. The mysterious circumstances of how and why he had done this, had never been discovered by the police. He had thought that he had escaped with just a driving ban and Dave was in the clear. However his running career was now over for good due to the injury he sustained in the car. Nonetheless Clive carried on with life. Afraid of what might happen he was prudent and begun using fake names and pretending to be a Freeman of the Land as an excuse for this, in order to help try and cover up his evil twin's past.
Iuliia, until now, had accepted Clive's explanation that he had simply missed the road signs and that he was into conspiracy theories. However with the authorities beginning to grow suspicious her own concerned bubbled to the surface. The authorities began to ask difficult questions: Were this couple child trafficking on the cheap, using some unknown birth mother to give them a baby? Were the couple, moving drugs between the islands? The pressure started to take its toll. Iuliia already faced doubts about her relationship with Clive, her much older baldy skinny wretch of a husband, and now began to see through Clive's web of lies. Alone with her daughter in another country far away apparently with her Aunt, Iuliia's fears started to grow. Would she ever be reunited with her elder daughter? Why HAD Clive speed off into the night, bundling her and her daughter into the car in a panic all those years ago? Why on earth WAS Clive refusing to agree to a DNA test?
The couple now face an uncertain future, unable to register the baby's birth or apply for a passport. Left adrift and stricken with a cold chilling thought, Iuliia started to panic. But Clive had a plan and clung to the hope that they may still be able to make a future in the Carribean and start over with the proceeds of a GoFundMe scam to get enough money together to apply for citizenship in Saint Lucia away from the UK extradiction process. All they needed to do was a good sob story, enough publicity and an appeal to raise enough money...
Would the plan work? Could Clive pull it off and be free of his brother once and for all? Or would the super sleuths on MN find the hidden clue to the mystery? Was Dave an evil supervillian? Or was Clive just a feckless cocklodger from Stalyvegas? Would the bumbling loveable chancer prevail or was poor Clive's luck finally running out?