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A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
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Danielle MacdonaldMillie Cantwell
Hugh SkinnerMax Thistlewaite
Joanna LumleyMeghan Geoffrey-Bishop
Rebecca BensonRosa
Gary LewisRamsay
Shazad LatifCharlie
Ian HanmorePatrick
Bhav JoshiElliot
Saskia AshdownEve
Sanjeev KohliJimi
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