Mark and Deborah (Debbie) Sampson and daughter, Tilley, like to practice an ecologically sound way of life. Deborah works as an aromatherapist, while Mark is a writer of training manuals for his livelihood but with ambitions to be a novelist. Together, the family's over-riding desire is to make a statement about who they are and how they choose to live their life, and to be accepted for the way they are by the local people.