Lancashire, 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wants it too. Life also changes drastically for local handyman Wilf Pollard when tragedy strikes. But his friends rally round to help so that he can pull his life together and take up a new job with a well-respected builder. Some of the local council are eager to deal with the squalid conditions of the Backshaw Moss slum, but others will stop at nothing to keep their profitable rents. Can Stella, Wilf and the residents of Birch End pull together to make sure good triumphs over evil?
