Campbell Road was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves prostitutes fraudsters -- every sort of rogue & vagabond drifted through this slum. Life was tough! but so were they Alice Keiver is a sensitive girl growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London. As the daughter of an alcoholic mother & niece of an abusive uncle she dreams that one day she & her baby sister will escape their rotten surroundings. Alices father Jack Keiver works day & night to provide for his family. But his hopes for a better life are dashed each time he returns home to find the money-jar raided & his feisty wife Tilly collapsed drunk in the corner. In the room below Alices downtrodden Aunt Fran spends most of her days nursing the injuries inflicted on her by her cruel husband Jimmy -- but this time hes pushed the family too far & theyre not going to let him get away with it. Revenge is going to be sweet.