If you think that age brings wisdom, contentment and an acceptance of your lot in life, then you obviously haven't been to the Isle of Oxney. Alison Black lived there until she decamped to London with her partner Frank. Now, after an absence of thirty years, she cuts herself adrift and returns alone to the landlocked island she once called home. Determined to use the time to figure out exactly what she does want in life, which even she has to admit would be a first, her brother, friends and one small dog welcome her back into their eccentric island lives and conspire to make her quest anything but straightforward.