Min's Story

Miniver Hargreaves and her divorcee mother live a meagre, make-do-and-mend existence, but at least they have each other. Then tragically, at barely sixteen years of age, Min is left to fend for herself when her mother passes away. The teenager must use all of the resources her mother taught her, just to survive. Now a successful florist and seamstress, hard working Min finds herself rather lonely so when Robert Smith, a soldier on leave, begins to pay her some attention she is very flattered. After a whirlwind romance the young couple are quickly married, with Rob taking a naive Min completely under his wing. But what Min believes to be love begins to evaporate into control, and then spiral into violence. Can a distraught Min escape Rob and reach inside herself to find her survival skills once again? If not for her own sake this time, but for the safety of her child?