Judith Dunbar's parents leave for Singapore, and she remains in England, at the boarding school of St. Ursula's School, where she meets Lovedie Carey-Lewis. The aristocratic Cary-Lewis family becomes a second family for Judith. In their house she experiences her first love and first disappointments. And then the war begins. Judith decides to join the army. One day, during a short vacation in darkened military London, she meets the one who will become her destiny. But how much else Pilcher’s characters have to go through on the way to happiness, to their home...