Ellie, Josie, Hannah and Shoo are four ex-cons who upon their release from prison find themselves with £3 million due to their latest scam. Planning on starting a new life, they initially plan to lie low and wait for trouble to die down, and subsequently end up in Hope Springs, an unremarkable Scottish village, and in the failing B&B of the kind-hearted Sadie Cairncross (Annette Crosbie). But for the girls, the trouble has only just begun.
