Single mother Lucy Parker loves the calm historical charm of her hometown of Bundah. But raising her teenage child Belle in a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business, is challenging.

Stressed Hugh Thompson will come around and purchases a rundown pub with big programs for a fresh start. But immediately after a spate of teenage drug overdoses starts to divide the local people and there are whispers they could be linked to this newcomer who has a dark and incomprehensible past. When Belle all of a sudden starts hanging out with the wrong kids and tinkering with alcohol, Lucy becomes fearful that drugs will be following. The very last thing she needs is for a guy like Hugh to arrive and disrupt her lifestyle. But it appears fate has other ideas…