As the Second World War enters its final year, Ruth Bentley feels life has dealt her more than her fair share of trials and tribulations. For the second time she has lost her home in a bomb attack on Rotherhithe, and with her husband away fighting, her two daughters evacuated to Wales, and her mother killed and father seriously injured in the attack, Ruth is left to face the devastation alone. But Ruth finds friendship with Lucy, and both women dream of the day when they'll be reunited with their loved ones.