Alex Hyde, a young, highly successful management consultant from London, accepts a lucrative assignment a few weeks before Christmas Eve: She is to help "Kentallen," a family-run whisky distillery, back to success. No sooner has she set foot on the remote Scottish island of Islay than she meets Lochlan, heir to the dynasty. Attractive, charismatic and unpredictable - Alex has never had to deal with a client like him before. In the course of their collaboration, they become closer and closer, the boundaries between their private and professional lives become visibly blurred. And Alex realizes too late that, for the first time ever, she is losing control ...