Set in England, the story describes how Jaki, a young graduate, finds her life turned around after a meeting with a strange woman who lives in an old house in the middle of a wood.

Jaki is looking for a job that will make her independent, while at the same time preparing to marry her childhood sweetheart, Hugh, a rising star at the factory where she has a temporary contract.

The wood and the old house are threatened with destruction by a road scheme. Jaki meets others who are determined to fight it, and finds herself falling in love with Gavin, whose views are quite unlike those of Hugh and his family. She enlists the help of her aunt Stella, formerly a successful singer, and the campaign takes off. But is Gavin all he seems?