Fiona Hindmarsh, a successful middle-aged economist, likes to live her life her way. Beginning the love-of-her-life affair with the gorgeous Laine Macready, a girl who wears a Hardie Aimes shirt like no one else can, she is interrupted by a phone call. Her mother has had a heart attack at the top of a plum tree she was pruning and died. Irritably Fi sets off on a night-time drive home to help organise the funeral. But what precisely is home for Fi? This sudden bereavement sets her thinking…