Set in 12th century England, it tells the stories of tournaments, outlaws, witch trials and divisions between Jews and Christians.
In 1859, when four year old Mary Baxter’s little sister, Emmy, was adopted from the orphanage, she took with her their rag doll Dotty, made for them by their mother shortly before her death. Eight years later, street urchin, Mary became scullery maid to the wealthy Boothroyds. She then discovered their daughter Emmeline had a doll just like Dotty and she begin to suspect she was actually her sister.
In 1840, Daisy and Katie Brown are looking for the Swans, friends of their recently deceased mother. They are taken in by Ma Harris who had trained a band of thieves and expected the girls to earn their keep the same way. Daisy managed to earn money by singing but Katie, to young to understand, was becoming an accomplished thief.
While Daisy the kitchen skivvy from the Moncrief household, in Victorian London, secretly went home to nurse her sick mother, Miss Sarah Moncrief had offered to take her place.