In 2011, author David Nicholls adapted his worldwide bestseller One Day as a film script for director Lome Scherfig, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as doomed lovers who are destined to meet on the same day over a period of 20 years. A daring 14-part TV version promises to translate more of the heartache from page to screen, casting Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod as Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley, who speak for the first time on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation. The following morning, they go separate ways as friends but fate binds the couple and conspires to bring them back together on the same summer day each year as they become older and - hopefully - wiser. Death, drug addiction and work commitments prevent Dexter and Emma from declaring their true feelings for each other across the decades