Sisters Mary and Cathy Ward couldn't be more different: Mary, the eldest, is a wild and sensual red-head, determined one day to leave the mean streets of her Liverpool home to seek wealth and position; whereas Cathy has won the love of all the Wards' friends and neighbours with her dark curls and gentle ways. But one fateful Sunday in 1911, when Liverpool erupts in the Bloody Sunday riot, both meet and fall in love with the same man. Greg Redmond takes one look at Cathy and loses his heart. It looks as though the close-knit family will be split, but then Mary meets the suave and handsome Clive Walden, whose fortune and social standing suggest he will make the perfect husband...