Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina. When Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation, she is delighted. Life is very different for the Brewsters, living on Manor Farm in Herefordshire.
Danny and his girlfriend, Sophie, intend to marry one day so that they can run Manor Farm together but his cousin and bet friend, Phil Ryland, feels differently. He longs to get away from farming and intends to escape as soon as he can. Then war comes and changes everything.
