Casa di Corsa

Why do people pack up and seek new lives elsewhere? And does the hoped for dream existence always materialise?

In Gemma's case, it is the disastrous workplace affair from which she is just emerging that prompts her adoring husband and her to leave England for Corsica's majesty.

One adult daughter gives her support: her son Robert is diametrically opposed. But she and Jonathon choose what seems like the perfect home and open a self catering business. For a time, it goes well. But family life is not smooth and becomes beset with major crises. At the same time, the idyllic country in which they are settling is striven by its internal conflict as it struggles for independence from France.

What will happen to the dream as family problems, and political resistance and violence converge?

How will Gemma deal with her new life and what will be the reality of moving to escape from life's difficulties to an apparently perfect location?