When war is declared Rose McAllister has a good job but agrees that her daughters Daisy eight and Petal four must be evacuated. Daisy and Petal are happy at first but circumstances change and they are put in the care of a woman who hates them and taunts them with the destruction of their city. They run away arriving at home on the worst night of the blitz. Rose returns to Bernard Terrace to find her home has received a direct hit and is told that the children were seen entering the house the previous evening. Devastated she decides to join the WAAF encouraged by a RAF pilot Luke whom she has befriended ...