Following the break out of the 1984 Coal Miner's Strike, nine year old Janey watches the members of her family and community in her small Yorkshire mining village fall apart under the strain. Friendships are made and broken, and loyalties are tested. Years later, the grown up Janey, returning home to tend to her dying father, re-lives that disastrous year through her journal entries and memories of a year she will never forget.
Following the break out of the 1984 Coal Miner's Strike, nine year old Janey watches the members of her family and community in her small Yorkshire mining village fall apart under the strain. Friendships are made and broken, and loyalties are tested. Years later, the grown up Janey, returning home to tend to her dying father, re-lives that disastrous year through her journal entries and memories of a year she will never forget.