Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

A young Syrian refugee living in the UK without his parents decides to build a boat and sail home to find them.

A fearful alien is sent to Earth to retrieve a fugitive from his own kind, but things get complicated as he has befriended a little girl who teaches them about love and human emotions.