John McCann, a man who judges life by the tally of an accounts ledger, has a supreme goal in life: To achieve, live, and enjoy the rarified executive lifestyle. But he's encountered one problem: The migraines are going to continue to get worse unless you make some major changes in your lifestyle. What you need is a 'sea change'… Perhaps buy a nice little business in the country, settle down, something easier to occupy your time…
While John knows the doctor is right, he just can't resign from the job he's fought so hard for. He decides the sacrifice of taking a year's leave of absence won't interfere too much with his plans, and so he finds himself running Margins, a cozy little bookstore, with the help of the former owner's son, Jamie. John expects to put in his year, get his stress under control, and then get back to business.
What John doesn't expect is how Margins and its denizens draw him in, particularly the quiet, disheveled man who takes refuge in the old leather chair in the second-hand book section. John's plans for an unattached year of simple business crumble when he meets David and is forced to reevaluate life, love and what he really wants from both. John and David are forced to come to terms with their pasts as they struggle to determine what possible future they might build together.
John is warned by his doctor that he needs to take things easy for a while and so he arranges to buy a used bookshop and he takes a year off work. He is initially disgusted when he realises that a homeless man comes in a reads everyday (and that the previous owner's son and now John's employee Jamie shares his lunch with the homeless man), after a few days though John gets to know David and between David, Jamie and the bookshop (Margins) the hard shell John had erected around himself starts to break. At the same time the barriers that David has also start to crumble.
Crafts and Life 
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