Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their
widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a
baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded
to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has
signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it
is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of
orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them--without
their family's consent or knowledge--are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway
children.