Hetty Feather

6 year old Hetty Feather and her little brother, Gideon are forced to leave their "borrowed" family and return to the Foundling Hospital which the fearsome Matron rules with an iron fist.

With Hetty framed by Sheila and locked up by Matron it looks like Hetty won't get the escape letter to Matthias in time for their midnight breakout. But maybe she can break into the boys wing and finally meet Gideon and reset the escape plans in motion.

It's Gideon's borrowed-birthday but how can Hetty celebrate with her brother when girls are not even allowed to mix with the boys? With a plan to scale through the rafters and into the towers can the two wings secretly come together without Matron finding out, and not to mention the dangers of getting across the roof at night?

Mathias is back and a shadow of his former fearless self. With the Hospital on lock down in order to mass produce toys supposedly earmarked for charity, children start falling ill and Gideon tries to enlist Mathias' help to get to the bottom of Matron's toy making venture.

Hetty's feisty little borrowed-sister, Eliza, arrives at the hospital and like Hetty clashes with Matron. When Matron's sister, Annie arrives to deliver bad news about their dying mother, she also tries helping Eliza and Hetty in their battles with Matron. But can Annie help her own sister make amends with their frail mother before it's too late?

Kindly Nurse Wintson is sacked by Matron. So Hetty convinces the children to go on strike. Will Matron capitulate before the choir debut their new anthem in order to win a £100 donation for the school's organ? Or will Hetty lose support and be crushed by Matron?

The boys compete in a series of gruelling army tests in order to win a place out of the Foundling Hospital and into the big wide world as a drummer boy in the army.

A distraught couple have come to reclaim their child, but which Foundling could it be? With Hetty determined to find out, someone could be leaving with the parents for good. But will Matron allow the Foundling to be reclaimed without a fight? Meanwhile, Gideon plans on escaping in search of his parents, but Vince and Judd have other plans.

It's open day at the Foundling Hospital, and just when Hetty sees Madame Adeline there, thinking she could be her real mother, Matron tasks Hetty with looking after Lord Upton's snooty daughter, Charlotte. When it transpires that Matron has plans to send Hetty to India as Charlotte's maid, Hetty's days as a Foundling could be coming to an end. And will she ever find her mother again?

With Hetty finally escaped from the Hospital in search of Madam Adeline, Matron is on the warpath and thinks she knows where to find the escaped girl. In the meantime, the gang come together to try and help expose Matron's true intentions of Hetty's planned trip to India. But can they get to the truth in time and will Cranbourne believe them?