Peter Straker and Imogen Doody both are misfits in the world. Straker feels guilty about a train crash he caused by crashing his aeroplane into the train; 78 people died. Doody feels guilty about the suicide of her sister Celia and her broken marriage with Harry. Both have put up walls around themselves and are very unapproachable; Doody by being angry, Straker by not talking. They meet when Doody inherits an old cottage from her Godfather in the town where Straker lives in an the old lighthouse. The cottage needs fixing and Straker is the man who can do that. Slowly a friendship develops between the two. Struggling with their past and present they find in each other a person who they can trust and who understands.
