August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset. Tired & frightened she arrives with nothing but her gas mask & a change of clothes to her name. Billeted at a grand country house Poppy is received with cold indifference above stairs & gets little better treatment from the servants. Lonely & missing the family she left behind in London Poppy is devastated when she hears that they have been killed in the Blitz. Circumstances soon force Poppy to move to the suburbs & into the company of strangers once more. Earning a meagre income as a hospital cleaner as the war continues to rage Poppy longs to do her duty. & as soon as she is able to she starts her training as a nurse. While the man she loves is fighting in the skies above Europe Poppy battles to survive the day-to-day hardships & dangers of wartime wondering if she'll ever see him again...