Can she escape her past? Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow workhouse. She now has a coveted position in the kitchens at Freeman\"s Department store in Liverpool and even the prospect of advancement....

Can this orphan ever fulfil her nursing dreams...? After her mother\"s death, Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But the fact that Dora is mixed race and illegitimate see her treated as little more than a servant by her step-mother and half siblings....