When Evelyn Ambrose endures the heartbreaking infant mortality of her first-born child, she decides to become a wet nurse in the hopes of helping another vulnerable family since the need for available lactating women has gone from considerable to desperate. Evelyn then becomes employed by the affluent and beautiful socialite Lady Florence Wright - who has birthed her first high-born son to inherit the legacy. Lady Wright has become distraught that breastfeeding her child might be rather time-consuming, unfashionable, and detrimental to her womanly figure - or worse - the image of her high-class and overall social standing. However, tension ensues between the two women from different worlds. When Lady Wright's child grows more maternally attached to Evelyn - as does her husband, Lord Wright, who discovers a growing attraction to the nurturing and maternal figure - Lady Wright schemes against the woman who she allowed to ruin her reputation and steal her family.