When surgeon Jack Armstrong heard his father was dying, he felt obliged to return home to New Zealand Taken on as a locum at the local hospital meant he met nursemanager Amanda Morrison, and at first they clashed horribly! Their mutual delight in an elderly patient who would be one hundred years old on the first day of the new millennium brought them closer, and Jack slowly began to realise that his presence there had a true purpose, and that the timing of everything was quite perfect