When eighteen year old Grace Carlisle arrives in London in 1914 and fails to get a job as a secretary, she’s afraid she has disappointed her family terribly. She lies to her family when she finds a job as a housemaid on Park Lane and quickly becomes entangled in the lives of the family who lives there, especially Beatrice who is desperate to find a purpose and joins the suffragist movement. The choices both women make connect their chances at future happiness.