When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin At the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood, memories that don't tally with his parents' version of events As Ted begins to search for answers, so an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected