At The Bread Factory, they rehearse the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theatre where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
After 40 years of running community arts centre The Bread Factory, Dorothea (Tyne Daly) and Greta (Elisabeth Henry) are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple - performance artists from China - come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.