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...