Will Shakespeare finds a photograph, hidden in a cigarette case, buried in the local park grounds. The picture presents him with a dilemma of what to do with the discovery. In London, Martin De Granville, a successful hedge fund manager, decides he wants to enter the political arena and stand as an independent candidate in the forthcoming 2010 elections. After a whirlwind romance and marriage to Madeleine Verity, he chooses the constituency of Kenilworth and Southam to make his stand. Madeleine is uninterested in her husband's political ambitions, and so, he buys a flat in Kenilworth to use as his campaigning base. A chance meeting in a Coventry pub leads to complications in his bid for election and in his marriage.