蕾切爾是一個在英格蘭灰色郊區(qū)過著灰色郊區(qū)生活的少女。每周二,這里都是炒雞蛋、紅醬和熱啤酒的世界。她的夏天已經(jīng)安排好了,在肉店工作,在克拉克頓度假,她渴望被當作大人對待。當一個家庭朋友邀請她去希臘和他們一起度過夏天時,她抓住了這個逃離生活的機會。沃納一家完全不像她的父母,魅力四射,世故而無憂無慮。當瑞秋遇到華納一家年輕英俊的朋友本杰明時,她很快了解到,在一個小島上,每個人都知道彼此的事情,并感受到成長的痛苦。
Rachel is a teenager who lives a grey suburban life in grey suburban England. It's a world of scrambled eggs every Tuesday, brown sauce and warm beer. With her summer already mapped out for her, a job working at the butcher and a caravan holiday in Clacton, she longs to be treated as an adult. When a family friend invites her to spend the summer with them in Greece she jumps at the chance to escape her life. The Warners are everything her parents are not, glamorous, sophisticated and carefree. When Rachel meets Benjamin, the handsome young friend of the Warners, she soon learns that on a small island everyone knows each other's business and feels the pain of growing up.