Leanne Chalmers has been forced to leave her television career behind, and start again as Lily. No-one in the village of Eagleton has a clue about Lily, but it's a small place, and Lily and her friend Babs are swiftly embraced by the locals: Mike, the handsome Catholic priest; Eve, a mouthy Liverpudlian with a heart of gold; the hairdressers Paul and Maurice; and Dave and his love, Philly. Soon, Lily's new life is full of promise and as she joins Dave's reading room, a shop come cafe and library, she begins to relax. But then Eve is wounded in a burglary, and suddenly, Lily is afraid that her husband Clive may have discovered where she is...