Two penn'orth of sky is all you can see from dirty, cramped Nightingale Court where Emmy lives
with her widowed mother. Her main aim in life is to escape and she sees marriage as her best way
out. When Peter Wesley, First Officer aboard a cruise ship, proposes, she accepts easily.
The Wesleys have a baby, Diana, and all seems fine for the small family, but Peter is killed and
Emmy is left penniless. She and Diana are forced to move back to Nightingale Court. Emmy has to
take work as a waitress but she becomes ill and when suitors appear, Diana detests them all. . .