Lee is a ghost writer and she lives in a crumbling old house in Notting Hill. It's actually owned by her parents but she lives there rent-free in exchange for keeping up with the repairs, but if she doesn't look at them she can believe they're not there. She's got something of a commitment phobia and although she loves Tommy, her boyfriend of eight years, she can't bear the thought of moving in with him - or he with her. But when a children's television presenter dies in a fire just down the road she wonders if she might be wise to change her mind.