It is the 1950s. Tina, Hine and Sally are three young women who meet for the first time at the Preliminary Training School of a large English Midland Hospital Group. After a rocky start the girls with very different backgrounds, pledge a lasting friendship. Tina comes from a sheltered life in a middle-class family in Stratford-on-Avon: Hine is half Maori and had an illegitimate child in New Zealand, but this is not known to the others for some time...