Ryan Shaw, a disillusioned journalist in the provincial English town of Bardow, comes to suspect that his new neighbours, the Robinsons, have committed a crime. As he investigates he starts to uncover a conspiracy - not of some sinister cult or powerful elite but of ordinary people, people who refuse to be 'managed' any more.

Inspired by Johann David Wyss's classic The Swiss Family Robinson, this viral version of the eponymous family extols the principles of pragmatism, co-operation and self-reliance for the twenty-first century.