1940. With the Phoney War in England finally at an end, a young, naive Primary School teacher dreaming of life as a Wren, survives a brutal sequence of events involving hidden romance and tragedy. When one shocking incident throws her life upside down, she suddenly finds herself responsible for an orphaned pupil and together they embark on an emotional adventure beginning with a move away from the horrors of the Blitz to the challenges and rewards of farm life. Her love for the little boy grows daily and a new beginning for them both at a boarding school involves the rescue of a Dutch refugee...