A story of teenage love that develops in late 1960s England and endures through happiness and disaster over a period of fifty year. Great joys of youth mature with marriage and the raising of children, but the couple separate after one terrible mistake, and he is ditched with all the kids. The husband if left with ghosts of his young wife in his head, as in life she ages and physically declines. But comfort eventually finds them both, though in the end, tragedy is brought to the whole family. A beautifully moving tale of enduring love..