Noreen O’Donald left Ireland to try and trace her past in England. She is taken in and given a job by the Barkers, but doesn’t realise that they are her relatives who have just inherited her father’s estate. They intended to keep the truth from her so they can keep the inheritance themselves.
Belinda Barton is a a child star of film and television, famous for her blue eyes. Belinda lives with her uncle and aunt who take her money in the pretence of helping her “sick” cousin. After a fall Belinda starts suffering from bouts of blurred vision, but she is afraid to tell anyone.
Dolwyn Darke has a talent of being able to dream about the future. Her Aunt Rachel and cousin Charlie want to use her talent to con rich people out of their money.
Glendora Gale was a rich, selfish and an unkind girl but when she accidentally kills a girl during a quarrel she is sent away to a secluded boarding school. Miss Aiken the harsh headmistress sends the girls out to work at drudges. Glendora now going be the name Dora Dale, is moved to a kindly family the Maxtons. On a trip to the theatre she is shocked to learn Sara, the girl she thought she killed, is actually an actress. The actress, whose real name is Ethel, was paid by Glendora’s cousin to pretend to be dead so they could get her money. With the help of the Maxtons and Ethel, Glendora confronts her cousins. She lets them go unpunished and knows that before she was a selfish person who had made her cousins lives miserable. After her experiences she is more caring and sets about helping the children of Aiken Academy and improving conditions inside Brigley Prison.
