Lizzie has an unfortunate knack for attracting bad luck, but this time she's hit
the jackpot. Losing her heart to her boss at the radio station where she works
leads directly to losing her job, and with no money in the bank she's forced to
swallow her pride and return home to her parents. As if that wasn't bad enough,
her mother finds her work at the local care home for the elderly, and it's there
that Lizzie meets Mrs Dallimore.
In her nineties, Mrs Dallimore also finds h
erself in a situation which she's reluctantly coming to terms with. Old age has
finally caught up with her, and with her life drawing to a close she gives in to
the temptation to relive the past by sharing it with Lizzie. She tells Lizzie o
f the day when, as a young girl, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II
, she left her home in America to cross the Atlantic to England where she hoped
to meet her English grandparents for the first time.
