 In 1950, in London, Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is a simple woman of a low-class but happy family. She works cleaning the upper-class houses; her beloved husband is a mechanic and works with his brother in a repair shop; her son is a tailor; and her daughter tests and packs electric lamps. The helpful Vera is a very good and cooperative woman, helping her sick mother, a handicapped neighbor and whoever needs her. She also induces the miscarriage to women that do not want to have baby just to help them and without any remuneration. When a woman who s husband is serving oversee and has fallen pregnant as the result of an affair has some complication with her intervention and goes to the hospital, the police investigates the occurrence, and the world and the family of Vera fall apart with this tragedy.