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In 1944 teen-aged evacuee Eve befriends Lucy Felwood,who lives at Lightfields farm in Suffolk with her parents Martha and Albert and nine-year old brother Pip. At a dance Eve meets American airman Dwight Lawson,but declines to go home with him. Later he meets Lucy and arranges a date whilst Eve's younger sister Vivien plays with Pip. When young farmhand Harry reveals that he saw Lucy with Dwight Eve becomes jealous. Shortly afterwards Lucy and Dwight go into a barn for sex and the distraught family rushes out to see the barn on fire. Thirty-one years later Vivien and her daughter Clare come to stay at the farm for the summer. Clare is unsettled by a particular bedroom and,one night,despite a power cut,Vivien sees lights and hears voices from the room,though it proves to be empty. In 2012 the elderly Pip visits his son Barry and Barry's wife Lorna,who are running Lightfields as a guest house and caring for their grandson Luke. After a visit from Luke's hopeless father Paul the boy goes to bed expecting a visit from the tooth fairy but wakes in the night to see something entirely different,an apparent ghost.

1944:- After Lucy has perished in the fire the village comes together for her funeral but Eve is not convinced the fire was an accident. She searches the wreckage and finds Dwight's lighter though when she confronts him he denies any foul play. 1976:- Clare is concerned that her mother may be having another nervous breakdown and is relieved when John,her father,comes to see them. He wants Vivien to return to London with him for treatment but Vivien believes she can resolve matters by staying at Lightfields. However,as more uncanny things start to happen,Clare worries that they are linked to Vivien's previous stay at Lightfields and that a ghost may be to get through to her. 2012:Luke goes missing and is found by Lucy's grave in the churchyard. When he tells Pip that he has seen what he believed to have been the tooth fairy incarnate as a young girl Pip understands that Lucy's ghost may well be trying to communicate with the child. However an unwelcome diversion occurs when Paul announces that he will be applying for custody of Luke.

1944:- Harry and Eve still believe Lucy's death was no accident and Harry is upset to learn that she had willing sex with Dwight. Eve asks Tom -who once had a crush on Lucy - if she went with the American to defy her strict father Albert but Tom will not be drawn. Harry also discovers a 'hate' letter Eve intended to send Lucy as she was jealous of the affair with Dwight about which both Tom and Vivien knew. However in 1975 Clare is surprised when Vivien apparently fails to recall Lucy after seeing her grave stone. Clare asks Tom for information but he is also reluctant to say much. The women obtain the recently deceased Eve's letters,including one swearing her little sister to secrecy. Clare is disturbed to believe her mother is hiding something,as the ghostly presence continues. In 2012 Luke starts a fire after seeing the ghost - a fact which gives Paul ammunition for his custody claim,a claim Barry sets out to discredit. Seeing a picture of Vivien in the ashes Barry and Lorna Google her and find that Clare wrote a book based on her experiences at Lightfields. They also find a message,Save Her Soul,in the chimney but Pip shows no interest in explaining it.

1944:- Harry accuses Eve of starting the fire out of jealousy after finding the hate letter but Albert and Martha believe in her innocence. She is shocked to find out that Dwight has a wife and children but he denies killing Lucy to prevent her exposing him. Eve also prevents Albert from killing himself out of guilt for disowning Lucy after he knew she had had sex.1975:- Clare is perturbed by her mother's claims that Lucy is coming to get her after ghostly messages are found around the house.Vivien calls on Tom who tells her how Lucy died,a fact which Vivien seems to have completely erased from her memory. He assures her she was in no way to blame but she is not convinced. 2012:-Luke tells Pip the ghost is his guardian angel but the old man is nervous and begs to differ. That night they both see Lucy's ghost with her dress on fire. Lorna,aware that Paul may use dirty tricks for his custody claim,demands to know what is happening so Pip tells her and Barry the whole story.

In 1944 as Harry goes off to war and Albert tells Eve the family is moving to Lincolnshire Dwight comes to apologize for leaving Lucy alone in the barn -before he has a fatal motor-cycle crash. In 1975 Vivien sees the ghost of Lucy,which leads her to the remains of the burnt out barn,Vivien remembering how she saw Lucy go up in flames but did nothing to help. She attempts an over-dose but is saved by Tom. In 2012 Pip tells Lorna and Barry he believes the ghost is exacting revenge as he was the fire-starter though his memory is dim. Paul tries to snatch Luke but the ghost prevents him and ultimately the family come to see that Lucy is a benign presence as Vivien arrives to tell them who really started the blaze.