Alone since the loss of her family in an air-raid, Rosemary -- newly demobbed from the WRNS -- returns to her old home. But she is shocked to find that a whole family has been temporarily housed there. With little knowledge of children and cooking, and with housework to do, she has her hands full -- especially when strange things begin happening at the bottom of her garden. Friends help her cope, as she helps them. But will she also cope when romance calls?