It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law Frances 16 becomes pregnant and is banished to a lonely farm. She gives birth to twins a boy and a girl whom her mother heartlessly wrenches from her. And when told her baby daughter has died Frances is overcome with grief. After years of loneliness Frances is reunited with her son Michael and tells him the truth of his birth. Michael however has grown up believing Frances's sister is his mother. She has taken him to live in Australia along with her new husband. Could Frances shatter her son's joy?
