Emily Gibbs, a lovely naïve twenty-year-old assistant infant teacher, lives in Hampshire, England, with her loving parents. She enjoys the simple pleasures in life. Emily has three dreams: one, to sing opera; two, to love the man she marries; and three, to have his children. Enter one of her dreams, financial billionaire and playboy Jeremy Brenton, who wakens her body to the delights of love, and she hungers for more. Two years into their happy marriage she asks him for a baby; he refuses. He has a guilty secret that could lose him her love and rip their marriage apart.