Ella, at almost forty, is forced to move back in with her father Alan. She’s trying to stay sober having temporarily given up custody of her young daughters to her ex-husband Joseph and his new partner Bethan.

A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself ‘The Grand Duke of Corsica’. An epidemic hits the Island and all must flee, but Alfred remains to finish the job.

Ryan a small time criminal on the run after a diamond heist gone wrong, is caught breaking into a cottage by its owner Mrs Potter; a bitter, unsociable and self isolated old lady, who has just been given a month to live. Although from very different worlds, the two realise they can help each other and agree to spend the month together; it’s a hasty decision that turns into the most extraordinary month of both their lives. A month that changes everything…