At the age of 43, Cedric Bates, an otherwise ordinary and very under-achieving Englishman, becomes the first human in recorded history to lay golden eggs. Subsequently, the eggs are pronounced by experts to be "real Fauxberge" eggs of the purest vintage, and they fetch an astronomical price at an auction. With the money Cedric's life and status change. His loving elderly parents at first don't recognize the smart young man-about-town who visits...