Hong Kong, with its oriental life and overlay of western ways, is the setting of FRAGRANT HARBOR. Gwen Kimball, fleeing an unpleasant affari in New York, comes to visit her sister and brother-in-law who are stationed there with the intention of settling in the Colony. Through them she meets many ex-patriots and locals, among them an oriental ship owner, Lance, who is married but not living eith his wife. They are immediately attracted to each other. Then Todd, the New York man from whom Gwen fled, arrives.