Stormy Weather spans the period between 1938 and the 1970s, in Scotland. Fresh out of art college, Sandy Kinnaird travels to Italy with two friends, on a scholarship of £100. His loving and supportive girl, Nel, remains in Leith, working in a shop. Released from Scottish restraints, Sandy falls in love with Italy, with painting, and with two girls in quick succession. In the art world of the mid-twentieth century, however, the path to success is not paved with talent alone. The war intervenes, and Sandy is forced to choose between his responsibilities to one girl in grey wartime Scotland and to another in the sunlit carefree bohemian life he loved. Half a century later, his daughters find a cache of letters. The distant past confronts them with more than one mysterious death. Surely, they cannot be murders?