Beatrice Alright is the queen of silver linings. She can find a spark of hope in any situation. Even when her partner delivers earth-shattering news and walks out, leaving Bea and their four-year-old, Ellie, without a home. But Bea believes that what she does have is more important, anyway, and that’s her job at St Helen’s Hospital, and therefore a warm, dry place for her and Ellie to stay while she finds a way through this. By day Bea cleans the wards, by night she tucks her daughter into bed between mops and buckets.

And tries so hard to hold on to hope.

When Bea sees an old man sat on a cold and lonely bench outside the hospital, she really doesn’t have time to stop. She should be clearing up her own mess, not worrying about this cantankerous stranger. But Bea can’t help herself…

As she slowly starts to draw out Malcolm’s heartbreaking story, could this simple act of kindness begin to heal a decades-old pain? And might finding peace for Malcolm help Bea in ways she didn’t even know she needed?

A deeply moving and emotional story about second chances, the families we choose, and how sometimes the people who seem the most lost are the ones who help us find our way home.