A single mother, Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful....
During World War II, a boy and his sister, orphans of the mother, try to survive without the help of their father, a member of the Resistance, and are still forced to endure the evil stepmother....