Catherine Hope can control her class 30 noisy school children, but trying to keep her 17-year-old daughter on track for A levels, that's a different matter. Rachel, usually studious and submissive, is suddenly ripe for rebellion. The reason? Marko: sexy, sultry, countryside campaigner, who's out to save a threatened woodland from destruction. The woodland is on the doorstep of Lavina, Rachel's conventional, disapproving grandmother. As the protest erupts friendships are severed, loyalties divided - and Lavia proves to have hidden passions of her own!