Adam Sykes seemed to have a beautiful wife, Flora, two young daughters, a thriving family business and a wonderful - if dilapidated - old house. But this idyll is shattered by Flora's sudden, violent death. As Adam traces the clues toFlora's suicide he realizes how little he really knew about of her guilt at not loving her mother enough, of her feeling of being an 'outsider', or of her overwhelming passion for a man who could never have returned her love. The discovery makes Adam question everything and as he relearns how to be himself he finds there is space in his life for new hope and new love.