'Does that mean that we're friends?' 'Friends, ' said Jean grasping Dolly's hand and shaking it in solemn confirmation. In 1910 in the north of Scotland two country girls from opposite ends of the social scale meet and become friends as they adjust to new, unfamiliar lives in the city of Elgin. But will it be possible for their friendship to survive social differences, the campaign for women's suffrage and industrial unrest in the shadow of the bloody conflict being waged on the continent of Europe?