A new life begins for an orphaned Irish girl in an English Lake District Convent.
As the years pass, Tilly blossoms from a tomboy into a beautiful young woman who meets and falls in love with a young handsome Spanish artist. He has to unexpectedly return to his own country promising to return for her. He gets embroiled in the bloody Spanish civil war and Tilly never sees him again. She is left bereft, alone and pregnant.
What will become of Tilly's daughter, does she find the true love she seeks, will she ever be reunited with a father who doesn't even know she exists?
A chance meeting with an American woman shatters her world as she knows it and she flees the country. A Spanish family take her under their wing and slowly she heals and finds the strength to make a new life and she sets off on the pathway to true happiness only to find it is littered with many heart-rending twists and turns on the often dangerous and unforgetable journey.