Every Friday evening Tom drives his lilac bus from Dublin to Rathdoon, carrying five very different passengers. There is Judy, who runs a health food shop in Dublin and has a little country cottage in the grounds of the big house in which she once lived; Dee is a bright attractive law student carrying on a doomed affair in Dublin with a married doctor; mean Nancy Morris who works for the doctor and drives her flatmate mad with her petty ways; Celia works as a nurse in Dublin and comes home every weekend to help her drunken mother to run the family pub and Mikey a bank clerk in Dublin and an eternal bachelor.

Each of the characters have come to a cross road inhis or her life, and this charming film tells their interwoven stories.

Adapted from Maeve Binchy's best-selling novel, by Stuart Connaughton.