When the Luftwaffe unleashes its full fury on the city of Portsmouth in the first of three major blitzes, the Taylor family are bombed out Judy finds her job relocated from the gutted Guildhall to a hotel in Southsea, and home is now a small terraced house in April Grove And then there is the news she has been dreading her sailor fiance has been killed Judy and her young, recently widowed aunt Polly decide to join the WVS - running canteens, accompanying evacuee children, and helping the families of servicemen Gradually, Judy and Polly find their own grief healing as they take part not only in their war work but in the life of April Grove, and although both are at first convinced they will never know love again, they both find it in the least likely manner