Chapel Acre is an old English village that dates back beyond the 15th century. Chapel Estate is the home of Lord and Lady Hume who have a daughter, Grace, and a son, Frank. The matriarch of the family, the Dowager Lady Maude Hume, is ninety eight and lives in a Care Home. Billy, a local resident, works as a stable boy on the Estate having returned to the village after several years away. Grace has no time for him at first but when she learns about his life away from the village, she changes her feelings towards him, but those feelings are not reciprocated willingly by him. He plans to leave the village, but an unexpected and almost tragic event has consequences which change the lives of Grace and Billy for ever.