Alec Bailey is a frustrated engineer living in London. He works fixing appliances, but the money he earns isn't enough to pay his bills. Everything changes when an estranged uncle appears in his life with an offer he can't refuse: pay off all of Alec's debts as long as he moves to Nova Scotia, Canada, for a year. Without many alternatives, the young man accepts the agreement and begins a new phase in his life, now in a new country and about to know more about his family and himself.