Elsie Tanner and her husband Arnold move in to No.11 Coronation Street in 1939, as war breaks out.
Her cheeky self-confidence immediately puts her at loggerheads with local busy-body Ena Sharples and Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return.
But as Christmas approaches, the residents of Coronation Street must put their petty squabbles aside as the Manchester Blitz grips their home town of Weatherfield.
The residents must pull together to make this a Christmas to remember – for all of the right reasons…