On the eve of V.E. Day, 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy new life with her mother and a strange stepfather in Sheffield. But when she’s fifteen, tragedy leads her to a long-lost family in the north-eastern shipbuilding town of Sunderland. A shocking discovery throws her on to a long road paved with love, hope, and despair, as she searches to uncover the truth and find the fulfilment that she desires.