Everyone knows the Darcy family, who live at 12 1/2 Plymouth Street, Surry Hills - but what came before? Flame-haired Eny - Grandma - had married John Kilker and had eleven children; Hughie and Jer Darcy, the sons of Martin and poor mad Frances had fled early from home. Hughie, free as a bird and irresistible to girls, knew every pub in the north-west; crippled Jer was his constant companion. When Hughie returned to Trafalgar, it was Margaret Kilker, soft and blooming with love who yearned for him and caught him fast. But love and marriage are not always what they seem...