In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose own life has fallen apart, determines to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one girl ), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family goes into a dilapidated old house that has that's crumbling apart and no power. But life on Corfu is economical, it's an earthly heaven, and the Durrells move to forge their new existence forming relationships, and adventures.