Will Prentice, who immigrated to Canada from England some thirty years ago, realizes that sometimes you have to leave home to find it. The week after his wife asks him for a divorce, Will returns to England to attend his mother's funeral. Embarking on a driving tour of the English countryside, in part to unravel a secret from his mother's past, in part trying to see how much of England he remembers, and where he belongs, he begins to reexamine his life back home in Canada.