This is a story of resilience and survival. It begins when a man, James, and a woman, Sarah from different faiths meet. When they marry, her family cast her out and turn their back on her. When James is killed in a tragic accident, Sarah cannot cope and leaves her two children at the Workhouse believing them to be cared for, and goes to the river to drown herself. The two children now have to fend for themselves. George is sold to a Silk Mill and Charlotte is sold into service. From here, they all have different roads to take which take them through WW1, when they have to pick up their lives again. Follow them as their lives twist and turn and take them to Gypsy camps, fairgrounds, The East End of London, and the hop fields of Kent. Family does not always mean blood ties, but also deep friendships and circumstances that bind us together.