An eternally optimistic schoolteacher is determined to maintain an upbeat attitude whatever life throws at her and help others to do the same. However, she meets her total opposite when she takes lessons with an embittered driving instructor perpetually raging at the world. Mike Leigh's comedy drama, starring Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan and Alexis Zegerman.

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.