**The East End of London, 1930. Work is scarce, food is in short supply
and there is political unrest on the streets. But in the face of all
this hardship, there's always friendship.
**
Becky, Bernie and Rose - three best friends from very different
backgrounds - are working hard to establish themselves in pre-war
Spitalfields. Becky, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, wants to become a
nurse, but her father has more traditional plans for her. Aching to
leave the East End and travel the world, Bernie feels trapped by her
vast family of poor Irish dock workers. And then there is Rose. Tiny and
thin, she lives with her drunken mother and a revolving selection of
surrogate fathers who exploit and brutalise them both.
But at least the girls have each other and, as Europe begins to drift
towards another war, their friendships become ever more crucial as each
one of them fights for their place in an ever-changing, frightening, new
world. One way or another, love will pull them through . . .