When Judith Dunbar is sent to boarding school she makes friends with the wild and carefree Loveday Carey-Lewis. Loveday introduces Judith to her wealthy and glamorous family and their glorious ancestral home of Nancherrow.

The next few years are glorious, joyful halcyon days of passion, fun and romance, as the friends remain blissfully unaware of the spectre of war which is about to overshadow their lives...