Episode One
In Sheffield, 1989, teenagers Daniel and Alison meet at a house party, and bond over their shared love for music. The relationship they forge that night will follow them forever, and leave them wondering what could have been. Twenty years later, Daniel is in Sheffield and Alison in Sydney; despite the distance, Daniel reaches out to Alison in the hope that they might be able to rekindle that spark that once illuminated their young lives.
Series Synopsis
In Sheffield, 1989, teenagers Daniel and Alison meet at a house party, and bond over their shared love for music. Daniel is popular, Alison is a wallflower. When they meet on the dance floor, their lives are forever changed. The relationship they forge that night will follow them forever, and leave them wondering what could have been.
Daniel, already head over heels for Alison after their first meeting, tries all the classic tricks in the book; offering to walk her home, inviting her on dates… Nothing seems to work, as Alison is intent on keeping him at arm’s length, for reasons Daniel doesn’t understand. Despite her best efforts, Alison can’t help but start to fall for Daniel as well, and eventually, the beginnings of a relationship between the two starts to form.
Twenty years later, Daniel is in Sheffield and Alison in Sydney; both have moved on from their teenage house party days. Both are married, somewhat unhappily, with children nearly grown. Life looks differently for both of them than how’d they’d imagined it at seventeen; Daniel is a freelance music journalist, and Alison has just realised her dream of writing her own book, after spending much of her life a stay-at-home mom. But mostly, both of them are unable to shake the memories of their short lived but passionate relationship as teens, and the mark they left on each other’s lives.
Daniel, powerless to the strong hold the memory of Alison still has on him, reaches out to her in the hope that they might be able to rekindle that spark that once illuminated their young lives. On the other side of the globe, Alison is unsure about reciprocating; anxious that what she ran from all those years ago may finally catch up with her.
