Dorset 1876. When young Beatrice Cullen shows up in the local church with her illegitimate child in her arms Reverend Michael Redfern finds her daughter Lily a home with a kind couple. When Lily loses her adopted parents she is forced to live with her awful aunt Doris. But everything changes for Lily when she receives a letter from Reverend Michael revealing that her birth father is Sir Frederick Copperfield. And when Lily gets the chance to work for the Copperfields she can't pass up the opportunity to get to know her real family.