Destinies can change in an instant. In 1935, privileged misfit Lorna meets the love of her life. Falling for a penniless and bohemian artist, Matt, she abandons her stuffy Kensington existence in London and moves to a rustic cottage in Somerset. A baby, Molly, is born, but the coming war takes Matt, and with him Lorna's dreams - away. Lorna's decisions and their unforseen consequences come to shape the lives first of her daughter, Molly, and then her granddaughter, Ruth. Consequencestells the stories of three generations of women spanning the twentieth-century, united by their shared experiences of love, pain, fate and happiness.