After her dastardly husband Billy tries to sell her at a wife sale Lily Fowler finds herself alone frightened & heavily pregnant on the streets of Hull. Her brave attempts to find work are futile & when she is turned away from the workhouse & other such establishments for women in her condition" Lily is forced to swallow her last iota of respectability & work in a brothel in Leadenhall Square. Unexpectedly things begin to look up. Lily sees potential where others can only see destitution & ruin & soon forges strong relationships with the other women there. They are all good-hearted women who have fallen on hard times & together Lily & her "fallen angels" outwit the low-life brothel-keeper & work to turn the house in Leadenhall Square into something altogether more respectable. & before any of them know it doors swing open lost loves are recovered & the happy endings none of them dared to dream of begin to materialise..."