Kate, a young and proud working-class widow, strives to support her daughter Rosie in the unforgiving world of early 1960s Manchester. Betrayed by her first husband, she will never trust any man again. That is until she meets the quiet and unassuming Ed. After a night of passion, the two are inseparable. They marry and Ed becomes a father to her child. Yet tragedy soon tests their relationship to breaking point. Will the trust between them, be enough for their love to survive?