Daisy Buchan - sweet-natured but clueless - is happy enough, but doesn't seem to know what she wants from life. She takes her policeman boyfriend Joel for granted and drifts from one badly paid job to another.
But when she is twenty five, Daisy's beloved adoptive mother dies and leaves behind a scrapbook of memories, giving Daisy long hidden information about who she is and where she came from. Her real mother was a teenager called Ellen, a farmer's daughter from Cornwall, and Daisy sets out to find out more and track her down. But in unravelling the past, is she risking her future - with her adore dad John, and with Joel?