After her grandmother Arlette\\\'s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs - all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age - in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English island of Guernsey. Her will included a beneficiary unknown to Betty and her family, a woman named Clara Pickle who presumably could be found at a London address. Now, having landed on a rather shabby street corner in \\\'90s Soho, Betty is determined to find the mysterious Clara. She\\\'s ready for whatever life has to throw her way. Or so she thinks . . .