Journalist and broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire comes home to Greater Manchester to discover the history she never knew existed. Beginning near her childhood home of Littleborough, Victoria meets with her mum to recall both good and bad memories of living there, a time marred by domestic violence at the hands of her father. She learns about a nearby tanning factory whose owners provided an escape route for German Jews during the Second World War and at the Rochdale Canal, Victoria hears about the terrible working conditions in the cotton mill and how child labour was rife.