Thirteen-year-old Bella lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the Yorkshire countryside. When their father dies Bella has to take on the role of mother to her baby brother. When her mother announces that she wants to move the family to Hull, Bella is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. They arrive to find that the public house they are now committed to buying is dilapidated. Could things get any worse?