Linked by a secret affair, the wealthy Hamiltons and working-class Palmers are dramatic families. Twins separated at birth, one raised in each family, encounter the Morells who marry into the Hamiltons.

Dramatic incidents in the lives of the wealthy Hamilton family and working class Palmer family, linked by the long-ago secret affair of David Palmer and Patricia Hamilton and the offspring of that affair, twins John Palmer and Angela Hamilton secretly adopted into the respective families. Later more wealth arrived in the form of the Morell clan who managed to marry their way into the Hamilton family.—R Lindsay