Senior Cabinet minister Aiden Hoynes and his wife Freya Gardner are a high-flying golden political couple.
Away from Westminster, husband and wife face an uncertain future as they come to terms with the diagnosis that Noah has Asperger syndrome.
Desperate to salvage his political career, Aiden convinces Freya to bide her time until an opportune moment in which she can pledge support to her husband's position, thus undermining the current Prime Minister.
However, soon afterward, on a television interview, Freya is asked point-blank if she supports her husband's reasons for resigning, and she reluctantly says she does not.
The next day, Bruce is forced to resign when it is revealed that the firm representatives he met were actually undercover reporters, tipped off by Aiden, and that they have video of him soliciting and accepting bribes from them.
Aiden accuses Freya of sleeping with Bruce and claims his scheme was meant to restore things to the way they originally were, before realising that this means the end of their marriage.
Writer Paula Milne has stated that characters' surnames were drawn from the American political drama, The West Wing.