When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen.

The harrowing story of Eileen Munro's life -- abused as the adopted child of alcoholics in Glasgow in the 1960's, followed by teenaged pregnancy and attempted suicide. Her story ends on a positive note.