'What goes around, comes around' is the remarkable story of a young Lancashire girl, Rebecca Tay, born in the north of England in the 1950s, whose father dies as a result of his war wounds sustained in WW2. Rebecca is sent away to boarding school in Yorkshire in the 1960s, by her violent stepfather. Brought up by her widowed mother and maternal grandparents until her mother re-marries. Rebecca happily escapes to boarding school, across the bleak Yorkshire moors, where she finds comfort amongst brothers and sisters at the school. However, it isn't all plain sailing for Rebecca, as she has to deal with sinister repercussions in her new life.