Un hombre de negocios norteamericano compra un zoo en Gran Bretaña. Su falta de escrúpulos y su desmedido afán de lucro se ponen de manifiesto cuando decide vender algunos animales muy queridos por los empleados del zoo.
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.