This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways