Charity has spent her life keeping her family together, and when her teenage brother runs away to enlist, she faces a battle she never expected – one that could tear her family apart. But help comes from an unexpected new arrival…

Across the road, Divya, a young Indian woman with a gift for cooking, has found a happy home among the dockside community. As the bombs fall and the East End burns, the residents of West India Dock Road must rely on each other like never before.