Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with mr. Hilditch,...Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with mr. Hilditch, who is rooking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his memory lane.