The Secret

It is 1944 in London. A young man is killed in an air-raid, leaving a wife and two children - and a secret.

Ailsa, Margaret and Luke are persuaded by Jamie's brother Cal to return to the North East, to the town he came from.

Despite their grief and bitterness, they find a new life there: the children make firm friends with Danny and Shannon Logan, whose father Keir drinks and whose Mam, Jessie, has a secret of her own.

Against their families' better judgement, the young people form a bond which sustains them in hard times, and which will ultimately prove unbreakable...