Part One: 1936: With her family relocating to Singapore, fourteen-year-old Judith Dunbar heads off to boarding school, where she makes a lifelong friend in Loveday Carey-Lewis. When Judith accompanies Loveday to her grand home on the Cornish coast, she becomes like a surrogate member of the family. But as the halcyon days of Judith's teenage year pass, World War II looms to disrupt the idyll.