Synopsis

It's 1945. Rosie is one of six women who have become firm friends after working together in a parachute factory in London. Heroes of the home front, they have been critical in supplying the brave soldiers abroad, as well as dealing with their own devastating challenges. They are faced with the brutal reality of battle when a bloodied chute is returned for examination after failing to open and causing a young paratrooper's death. Though no fault is found, it brings home for each of them, their own memories of love and loss. Rosie can't bear to look at the parachute because it reminds her of her first love. As Ida, Norma, Peggy, Phyllis and Vivian rally round to comfort her over a cup of tea, a very special treat is brought out to cheer her up - a precious tin of biscuits. They all vow from then on that they will keep their secrets and mementoes in their own tins - and The Biscuit Tin Secrets Club is born. Over fifty years later, Suzie Lambert is fed up after breaking-up with the man she thought was 'the one'. She decides to cheer herself up with tea and biscuits at her Grandma Rosie's. As she tells of her woes in love, Rosie brings out an old biscuit tin and hands it to Suzie. The contents and her Grandma's story take Suzie on a journey to the coast and the past, to find out about Rosie's first love, Albert. As she digs into the memories, her discoveries help to heal Rosie's heart and find a new future for her own.

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