It's 1900, Smithfield, alongside the bustling mills, Trudy Foran's two year old son Edgar goes missing. Trudy is left to grieve with only a small article of her sons clothing sent he police by the kidnapper. Five years later and several more children taken by the same perpetrator, Trudy begins to put together the facts. Working with high powered men in government now she is close the truth. The only problem with knowing the truth is its sometimes the last thing you want to know.

  Two parallel storylines journey through the lives of two women: Edit and her daughter, Sam. Edith is struck with tragedy again and again and each time the struggles to forget a new life from the debris. Will there ever be an end to her heartbreak, or will she be pushed past the breaking point?

  Sam's life is molded by the struggles of her mother, which have created a rough and dogged life for her and her three sisters. Sam clings to her anger against her mother as a way to stay strong for the people who need her, but the same anger that motivates her to change also creeps into the new relationships she's forged.

  Both Sam and Edith struggle to let go of the past and the myriad ways it has broken them, even as they attempt to glue together a good life from the scraps and shards they have left. Perhaps some wounds can never fully heal, or perhaps they've just been neglected so long they seem impossible. Can Edith and Sam find a way to reclaim the broken lives they've been given in time to mend their own shattered relationship?