Liverpool 1926. Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream of security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes. Dar is involved in a devastating accident down at the docks, and Peggy’s world crashes around her.

Reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over their heads while Dar struggles to recover in hospital, Peggy revisits the hardship of her youth she so desperately wanted to escape from. As the summer days turn to winter, the overwhelming struggle takes its toll, and Peggy is forced to do something she vowed she would never do…