Liverpool 1917. Stella Bennett is sixteen and so beautiful that Michael Gallagher, an Irishman fighting with the British Navy, falls in love with her on sight. The Bennett family is horrified but the young couple know their minds and are set on marriage. Then Stella has a baby, Ginny, and when Michael sees her he is convinced she is not his child. He agrees to support her financially, but things soon go wrong and young Ginny is struggling to exist -- and to find her father who has gone back to Ireland leaving no forwarding address…