It is Heather’s silver wedding anniversary. But this milestone does not mark her marriage to Tom, her often absent airline pilot husband and father of their children. It is for her first marriage – a wildly romantic secret affair: when she was sixteen, she and lain – twelve years older than her and the heir to a scottish baroneccy – eloped after school speech day. The marriage had not lasted, but secrets have a habit of coming out and Heather is horrified to find her ex-husband amongst a visiting film crew. Many secrets are revealed and the peaceful Oxfordshire village community buzzes with scandal.