These are the chronicles of the parish of Midhurst during WWII, following the lives of the parishioners throughout the seasons of one year. It portrays the characters, with their various personalities, kindly, belligerent, awkward, and helpful, as their paths cross throughout their busy days and their various gatherings, socials and meetings, as the year passed. The chronicles tell the stories of their lives with their trials and tribulations, happiness and sorrows, make-do and mend, and partings and coming together.