London 1940. The Blitz on London is at its height.bombing is daily as well as nightly.and, amid it all, young mother Olive fights against the odds, defying the bombs and the authorities, to hang on to her seven children, even as her fickle husband deserts her and goes on the run from the police and the army. Made homeless by the bombing, Olive returns to the village where she was born only to be turned away by her father and her two bullying brothers. She finds refuge for herself and her children in an abandoned hovel and from there begins the fight to restore her dignity and her pride.