It's 1969. Defiant country girl, Viv Maguire, wakes to find she's been drugged by her parents and sent to the city to hide her pregnancy at Stanton house - a home for unwed mothers in Sydney's Kings Cross. On the same day, Joan Miller, 28, steps off the plane from London and commences work as a midwife at the adjoining hospital - Kings Cross General. Joan is nursing a broken heart and hiding a few secrets of her own. When Joan is called to assess Vic's pregnancy she comes into conflict with the Head of the Obstetrics, Dr. Patrick McNaughton. He's more than a little intrigued by Joan, and attracted. Meanwhile, Viv encounters Shirley, a mystery woman who has admitted herself to Stanton House. She's older than the other Stanton House girls and has a lover in Kings Cross.