When a daughter has no home can she ever hope to find happinessDespite being part of the large ODonnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father went missing in the Irish Civil War. Now ten years later she is forced to flee her home and journey to Liverpool seeking a better future for herself. There she is taken in by distant relatives and eventually reunited with her paternal grandmother. As Milly tries to build a new life she is haunted by her fathers mysterious disappearance.