Carolina vera and gedeon burkhard star in giles foster's adaptation of the novel by rosamunde pilcher. When elizabeth lancaster vera, a terminally ill 40 year old heiress to her family's cider farm, gets a phone call from the hospital with the news of the heart transplant she has been waiting for, she feels like all her dreams have come true. After the operation elizabeth is unable to connect to her family and instead finds herself drawn to a place she has never known the home of the woman whose heart now beats in her chest. As she meets her donor's widow, andrew shaw burkhard she immediately feels an unexplainable connection and the tormented pair begin a passionate affair. Will their love be enough to keep them together or will more hearts be broken along the way?