Alice's answer to any adversity is to hold her head up, radiate the beauty of her smile and let the world believe that darlings, she doesn't give a damn. With her husband in hospital and eight-year-old Dorothy to support, Alice has had to find increasingly creative ways of making ends meet.
Dorothy's way of coping with her mother's schemes is to create an alter-ego: Daisy. Where Dorothy wouldn't know what to do on their shop-lifting expeditions, Daisy can even help. But even Daisy doesn't quite understand her mother's flexible definition of right and wrong . . .
