When Londoner Chloe Marsh sees a poster advertising plots of land for sale for only five pounds, she decides to run away from her abusive husband, taking her two children with her. However he dream of a new start is not quite as as she anticipated with her and her girls having to make do with a tent as a home.
Harry Crowley, the man responsible for the Plotlands development, gives Chloe a job cleaning for him, meanwhile the Mulligans, Chloes Irish next door neighbours are definitely facing a trying time.
Tom, who lives on the edge of the Plotlands development and acts as a kind of a caretaker, has a secret from his past life during world war one when a former comrade turned crook turns up.
A violent storm occurs bringing trouble for the community, a depressed Harriet then goes missing causing an all out search. Chloe and Tom seem to drawing closer together.
It being the first anniversary of the first plot of land sold Crowley decides to throw a party, but Crowley has a secret agenda and is planning to sell off Langton Field(the Plotlands development) making everyone homeless.
Chloe and her children are beginning to settle in and Chloe's relationship with Tom is progressing but then Chloe's husband John appears on the scene demanding his marital rights, thanks to Tom he soon learns the way things now stand and the whole Plotlands community rally round to help the Mulligans finish their house.
