In 1991, Bronwen Carmichael is a student
at Durham University.
Researching aspects of World War 2, she comes across her mother Rosa's
journal, written in 1954 when Rosa was thirteen and England was recovering
from the war.
And, as Bronwen discovers, it was a
dark time in Rosa's childhood too. At the heart of the diary is a deep
family secret which now, fifty years later, could severely disturb the
self-contained Carmichael women.
This secret has tied the family -
matriarch Kate, writer Rosa, academic Bronwen, and daughter Lily - with
invisible cords which now threaten to break and change the family forever!
