蕾切尔是一个在英格兰灰色郊区过着灰色郊区生活的少女。每周二，这里都是炒鸡蛋、红酱和热啤酒的世界。她的夏天已经安排好了，在肉店工作，在克拉克顿度假，她渴望被当作大人对待。当一个家庭朋友邀请她去希腊和他们一起度过夏天时，她抓住了这个逃离生活的机会。沃纳一家完全不像她的父母，魅力四射，世故而无忧无虑。当瑞秋遇到华纳一家年轻英俊的朋友本杰明时，她很快了解到，在一个小岛上，每个人都知道彼此的事情，并感受到成长的痛苦。
Rachel is a teenager who lives a grey suburban life in grey suburban England. It's a world of scrambled eggs every Tuesday, brown sauce and warm beer. With her summer already mapped out for her, a job working at the butcher and a caravan holiday in Clacton, she longs to be treated as an adult. When a family friend invites her to spend the summer with them in Greece she jumps at the chance to escape her life. The Warners are everything her parents are not, glamorous, sophisticated and carefree. When Rachel meets Benjamin, the handsome young friend of the Warners, she soon learns that on a small island everyone knows each other's business and feels the pain of growing up.
