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 . . .