Three girls go to war & find true friendship.
Ethel runs away from a violent father, a man so fierce he beat her
The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the factories & laundry houses of industrial Glasgow. Divided by class, wealth & religion, two families could not live more different lives. As the Great War fades from memory, however, both the Seatons & the Flynns grow restless. Pat Flynn abandons himself to the sins of the flesh, blind to the dangerous activities to his teenage son, Sean, while Georgina, second wife of William Seaton, is desperate for pleasures her society marriage cannot provide. Yet she never anticipated being attracted to the same man as her stepdaughter Rose, nor realises how tragically the affairs of the Flynns & Seatons are about to become entangled