Frances Foggarty now in her fifties remembers her childhood. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother Tom was hit by a milk-float & killed. He returns after the funeral & Frances story is of her new relationship with Tom the ghost & guardian angel. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio & she & her young brother live with a rather tyrannical aunt. In this touching tale of loss hardship & endurance Frances comes to terms with Toms death & moves on in her life.