In the 1920s, Victoria, still grieving for her dead husband, goes to work for elderly Edward Mansel. When she meets her employer's grandson, Andrew, who had been injured in the First World War, he makes no secret of the fact that he has fallen in love with her. But Victoria will not allow herself to love Andrew, despite her young son's great affection for him. Was the tragedy of her past always going to get in the way of her future happiness?