Take an English woman: throw in a busy banker husband and a couple of kids. Decant them to an exotic location; take Tokyo, for example - the city of vice. Add plenty of cash, a host of social lubricants, culture shock and a few partners in crime. Pepper with innuendos, indiscretions and the unfathomable. Shake well and serve chilled over cubes of Japanese culture.

$ Expat Wives explores one woman's experience of living in a foreign and, at times, hostile environment, where marriages are tested and lives are forever altered in a melting pot of wealth, alienation and temptation.

Moving to a different country may sound like a fairytale come true – but is it? Could you do it? Would your relationship survive?