John and Elizabeth believe they have the ideal family. Their three girls - Baby, Becky and Brona - attend Dublin's most prestigious convent school, and all have bright futures. But denial and deception go hand in hand, and one night, Baby slips out into the december fog and doesn't come home.

John and Elizabeth believe they have the ideal family. Their three girls - Baby, Becky and Brona - attend Dublin's most prestigious convent school, and all have bright futures. But denial and deception go hand in hand, and one night, Baby slips out into the december fog and doesn't come home.

Losing their parents in a freak war-time plane crash, Amelia and her fiercely angry, bereaved older sister are rescued by their aunt Lucy, and their grandparents, a wonderfully eccentric British couple from colonial India, who are also scarred by the war.