Single mother Lydia, abandoned by her husband, meets village Doctor Jean, who has recently returned to her hometown. When Lydia and her son, unable to pay rent, get evicted from their home, Jean invites them to stay with her. Soon, she and Lydia develop a friendship – and something more.
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a schoolyard scuffle lands Charlie in surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the beekeeper brings his mother, Lydia, into Jean's world. In the sanctuary of the doctor's house, the two women find themselves drawn to one another in a way that Jean recognizes and fears – and Lydia could never have expected. However, in 1950's small-town Britain, their new secret can't stay hidden forever.