Scarborough 1880. Jeannie spends her days watching the harbour girls
- mending nets gutting herring
- & waiting for Ethan Wharton to come in on his father's fishing smack. Jeannie had always expected to marry the loyal & dependable Ethan. But then she meets Harry
- a stranger who has come to visit from Hull for the day
- & she falls for him. When Jeannie finds herself pregnant & Harry breaks his promise to come back for her she finds herself isolated. She & her child move to Hull where her life is touched by illness tragedy & poverty. She longs for the simpler times of her past & wonders if she will ever find someone who will truly love her
- & if Ethan will ever forgive her...