In the shadow of a love lost and being disgraced by her actions, Netta
Nichol must watch from the sidelines as her child is brought up by her
father and stepmother. This is not the first time her stepmother has
taken what is rightfully hers. First it was her dead mother's rainbow
necklace--Netta's only legacy--now her son. Netta is unable to protest
such treatment, for it is 1945 and, in the eyes of her God-fearing
community, she is doubly cursed: an unmarried mother who struggled with
mental health problems after giving birth to her son. After being
banished from her beloved Galloway, to a Yorkshire mill-town, Netta is
determined to show she is capable of building a life for herself, so she
can return to Galloway and claim back her child.