Thirteen-year-old Meredith must leave school to help support her family. She travels to the city to work as household help in a doctor's home. Her life is made difficult by the prickly butler, and confrontations with Maggie, the doctor's spoiled thirteen-year-old daughter. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith, Maggie, and Jack, Maggie's handsome older brother, are left to care for them.
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