Martin Brand is a journalist, footloose and fancy free. He travels the world in search of adventure and a story. And then his brother, an archaeologist, and sister in law are killed in a car crash on a lonely Cornish road, and his world is turned upside down, because they had a young son, and the boy needs a father. Brand takes up where his brother left of, trying to be a father to the lonely boy, and meets the beautiful Penny and her little daughter...