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.