In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and ohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and with him, Lornas dreams - away. Lornas decisions and their unforeseen consquences come to shape the lives In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and ohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt - and with him, Lornas dreams - away. Lornas decisions and their unforeseen consquences come to shape the lives first of her daughter Molly, and then of her granddaughter Ruth.