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.