Widowed at an early age, Maggie has never sought another long-term partner. Now she's moved from London to spend a year in a remote Scottish fishing village where her parents used to bring her and her siblings as children. The East Neuk in Fife is a little-known area of coast, an hour north of Edinburgh. But while the beautiful landscape is a perfect inspiration for Maggie's art, she finds the place more than a little isolating. Maggie wishes there was more companionship to her life than the occasional visit from her daughter and the odd night of passion with an old and very married friend. Meanwhile her elegant aunt is still much courted by suitors, despite turning eighty. And then Maggie meets Andy and realises that her own love life might be about to get a little more interesting.