When Millie Forester\'s mother abandons her one late June afternoon in 1854, the girl bursts unexpectedly into Aggie Winkowski\'s life.
But what begins as a compassionate solution soon leads to the development of a new, deepening relation.
Aggie, known locally as \'Raggie Aggie\' for her long-established business of trading rags and old clothes, knows the dangers waiting for such a strikingly pretty girl left alone in this rough and vice-ridden quarter, and sees no other option but to take her in.
When Millie Forester\'s mother abandons her one late June afternoon in 1854, the girl bursts unexpectedly into Aggie Winkowski\'s life