The Liverpool Matchgirl

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill with pneumonia and Arthur is imprisoned after a drunken fight their 13-year-old daughter Lizzie finds herself parentless. Despite her young age Lizzie has spirit and determination and she knows that she must find work to keep herself off the streets. In a stroke of luck she gets a job in the match factory and foreman George Rutherford takes her under his wing. A new home with the Rutherfords promises a safe haven but the years ahead will be far from trouble-free. And when Lizzie gives her heart how can she be sure she has chosen a better man than her own father?