It is the 1950s, and young Maggie Howard is completing her general nursing training at a London teaching hospital. It is a time when working hours are long and hospital discipline iron-strict. But Maggie loved nursing. She also loved the wrong man. But throughout her personal unhappiness and the gruelling hours of work she has the comradeship of her fellow setmates, Alice and Rose. And there is always the pleasant young houseman George Hartigan to offer a sympathetic shoulder... Then Maggie finds that her emotional entanglements begin to threaten her career. Would she finally win through—both in her career and in love?