Connie and her daughter Melissa, also known as Liss, were forced apart when Liss was 2 years old by children's services who took Melissa away to live with her grandparents, her father's parents, because they deemed Connie an unfit mother at the age of 17 without their son, Adam. Adam died, aged just 19, in a car accident when travelling to the shops. Now 14 years on, Melissa is 16 and has runaway from her grandparents to find her mum. Liss longed for her mum and after hearing the truth about what happened she vowed to find her again.