It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to
start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean Sussex with her austere foster-father the
Reverend Osbert Knox and his frustrated wife Alice is stultifying. She finds brief excitement
in an illicit love affair but soon determines that if she wants to live life on a bigger
canvas she must take matters into her own hands. She dreams of escape to Paris the Wartime
home her mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity but also
offers the chance to discover more about her family background and perhaps find a place where
she can finally belong. When Sophie eventually arrives in the city of her dreams it's both
everything she imagined and not at all what she expected.
