Dr Irene Hainsworth returning to her native West Yorkshire, faces her hardest battle. Devastated by being struck off the medical register for an illicit love affair, she must confront her family and try to start a new life. It is Richard Hughes, her new employer, who proves her toughest challenge. Paralysed by a stroke, he is sure he will never walk again, but as Irene uses all her resources to help him, and finds that once again she is beginning to casre for a man more than she should...