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Catherine Carreg longs to escape her monotonous life in Wales, and, with the help of her friend Deio, runs away to London, where she volunteers as a nurse and is thrown into a living nightmare amid the chaos of war.

Myrtle, a foundling raised in the Hardy household; Pompey Jones, a street boy who becomes a photographer's assistant; and the pompous, melancholy Dr. Potter, comment on the hidden life of Master George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer who meets his end on the field of battle in 1854.