When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life. She goes to London, becomes involved with the suffragette movement, is imprisoned for her militant actions and goes on hunger strike. With her health deteriorating, there is one person who can save her? Gervase. At the outbreak of the Great War her brother James is shamed by their father into volunteering, and Florrie becomes a nurse at the Front, where she finds love, but when her beloved brother is in danger, help comes from an unexpected source.