Pandora's life changes when an inheritance forces her to confront her past. She discovers that a daughter born in her early teens - and believed to be dead - is very much alive. Aided by her new love, a Welsh psychiatrist, Bryn Llewellyn, Pandora successfully searches for the girl - only to be rejected. Tragedy reunites the pair in a painful and uneasy relationship. Unwittingly, Pandora over-reacts, trying to buy her daughter's affection with generosity. Trinity is defensive, resenting her mother for the invasion of privacy as she awaits the birth of her son. As the uncomfortable circumstances of Trinity's birth unfold, her baby's arrival brings joy and understanding to the two women, enabling them to reach a compromise at last.