Waitress Lili Probert - a young woman who escaped her demanding family in Wales in search of a new life in Sussex - has seen her hard work rewarded at the hotel, but hides heartbreak behind her sunny personality. Her sweetheart, Norman, is missing in action and has been presumed dead, but she cant give up hope that he may be found. But when she meets injured soldier Rhodri, a fellow Welshman now living near Littlehampton, she fights hard to ignore her growing attraction for him, torn between her feelings for him and her loyalty to the man she thought shed spend her life with. But her emotions run ever higher when she suddenly receives a call from home; her mother is gravely ill and Lili is needed for her care. Lili must make a difficult choice. Follow her dreams and make her own life, or return to the place she tried so hard to escape?