Stella, cook at a munitions factory, has fallen for a handsome GI. He proposes when she falls pregnant, but soon his letters stop arriving . . .

Then there is Lillian, conscripted as a Land Girl. After her growing friendship with the married vet becomes serious, Lillian faces the ultimate choice.

Meanwhile, midwife Ada is back to work after the birth of her own baby and faces her biggest challenge after an outbreak of Whooping Cough . . .

Each woman comes from a different walk of life but they are determined to be the very best mothers, and friends.