Seventy-five-year-old, green-fingered Albert Stridemore's carefully ordered life has been unchanged for years. Content to live alone and diligently work his allotment, he safely buries the past as he turns the soil. But with the arrival of the coronavirus and lockdown, he finds himself digging up more than just potatoes in the spring. With time to think and an unexpected new acquaintance in the attractive widow Penny Finch, Albert is compelled to revisit past betrayals, even as his eyes are opened to a generous and richer world in the present. And when injustice is exposed as the virus strikes close to home, Albert is thrust into a new role and makes the most unexpected discoveries...