Former businesswoman Mari leaves her home in Greenwich, London to start a new life living in a distant, isolated corner of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.
Lyndon and his pregnant wife Ruth take the gamble of a lifetime as they leave the UK behind, plough all of their savings into buying a safari lodge in Zambia and set up their own business.
Daniel, Deborah and their children leave Scotland to make a new home in the jungles of Bali, Indonesia. Their dream is to live without money but they face hardships that they had not imagined possible.
Lynn, Richard and their two young daughters quit the UK and life as a 'food-bank family' when they head to a remote area of central Portugal to be self-sufficient and live off-grid.