In early 20th century Belfast, working class Meg Preston struggles to accept her own sexuality and yearns for forbidden love.<br /><br />Battling the customs and hardships of their time, Meg pursues a relationship with her childhood friend, Lillian Watson. But soon, tribulations of war, violence, and emigration threaten to tear everything apart.<br /><br />Seeking refuge for herself, her love, and her family, can Meg find the courage to become the heroine of her own life?