Pulling and Aunt Augusta

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manger with an uneventful life and love for dahlias, met his septuagenarian aunt, Augusta, for the first time in half a century at the funeral of woman who he had never doubted was his real mother. Aunt Augusta is a bold character with colorful stories. She asks him to go on a trip together to Istanbul by the Orient Express. Days on the road with Aunt Augusta disrupted his daily peace and awakened something nostalgic in him and he decides to visit his father’s grave in Boulogue, France, with the aunt. Where they expected no one, they find Dorothy Patterson who accidentally met Henry’s father on a “49 bus” and in whose arms he died.