Hearts catch flame as family stories and secrets merge, and past and present collide.
London 2000: 26 year-old Alex has it all – good looks, a great job and loyal friends. But she also has a neurotic flatmate, a mother who doesn’t know who she is, and a married lover who deals in futures but will only live in the present.
Yorkshire 1908: Alex’s ancestors, naïve Clara and her passionate sister Livvy, escape the surveillance of their bible-thumping grandmother and fall under the spell of an itinerant heartbreaker.