Two reclusive sisters send greeting cards to the outside world through their cousin, for which they make money that goes into a fund to visit their brother in Africa.
Various complications, including a runaway marriage, an abandoned baby's appearance on a doorstep, and a revealing letter follow.
[1] Farewell, Farewell, Eugene was an Australian television adaptation of the play which was broadcast live on ABC on 10 August 1960 in Sydney[2] and later a tapped version was broadcast on 26 October 1960 in Melbourne.
The Sydney Morning Herald called it " a refreshing piece of work, in general terms competently assembled, and with one performance in particular adding a final touch of assurance.
This was Letty Craydon's picture... [she] so thoroughly sketched the characteristics of a skittish, domineered, furtively-imbibing old lady that she seemed to have grown into the part.