It is 1940 and as the bombs begin to fall on London the women of Lavender Road find themselves struggling to carry on with their lives in the midst of the Blitz. Shy Kate Parsons enrols as a nurse, but finds the rigours of hospital life, and the pressures of a secret love, almost impossible to bear. Away on tour with ENSA, Jen Carter finds herself unexpectedly homesick - while her mother prefers to face the terror of the burning streets than suffer her husband's brutality at home. And as Pam Nelson longs for a baby to breathe life into her flagging marriage, eighteen-year-old Louise Rutherford faces pregnancy with an illegitimate child.