The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory. Beginning in the late ´60s, Changing Places follows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American academic Morris Zapp as they exchange lives, colleagues and even wives. Small World sees Swallow, Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the beautiful Angelica Pabst jet set about international conference scene, combining academic infighting and tourism, esoteric chat and romance. And finally, the feminist lecturer Robyn Penrose swaps the industrial novel for a hard hat in Nice Work as she shadows factory boss Victor Wilcox. Sparks fly when their beliefs and lifestyles collide.