Joy Meredith has the world at her feet.She has just turned eighteen, is starting a vet science degree and has defied her mother by moving to her own place in the city. She has a boyfriend and a job at the local pub. Her future seems set.Then Joy meets Mick Harris. Charismatic, talented and wild, Mick is the lead singer in a band that is going places - fast.He is everything Joy's life is not.When they head to the dizzying lights in London in the 1980s - and an intoxicating whirlwind of gigs, stardom and modelling - the past begins to overwhelm Mick and the cracks in Mick, in their relationship, and in Joy's own life.As things fall apart, Joy has to follow her heart around the world to find her way home.