Seventeen and pregnant, Gina has some tough decisions to make - should she marry the father of her baby? The former bad boy Bevan, on home detention for robbery, swears he has mended his ways and will care for Gina and their child. But Gina's own childhood experience of being abandoned by her mother gives her little faith in 'love'.
When her grandmother goes into a rest home, Gina begins to sort through her belongings and finds her Italian great-grandmother's diary, written during the Second World War, and discovers a disturbing family secret. As she follows the tragic tale in the diary, she starts to understand what love is – will this help her make the right decision?