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Jess and Nancy, girls from very different backgrounds, are nursing in France through the Great War. They have got much in common for both have lost their lovers in the trenches and when the war has ended, they return to a bleak future, nursing in Liverpool.
Very soon, however, their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman and would go to live in the Outback, whilst Jess marries a Liverpudlian. Both have children; Nancy's eldest is Pete, and Jess has a daughter, Debbie, yet their lives couldn't be more different.
When the Second World War is declared, Pete joins the RAF and comes to England, promising his mother that he will visit her old friend. Inside the thick of the May blitz, with 50 % of Liverpool demolished and thousands dead, Pete arrives in metropolis to find Jess's home destroyed and her daughter missing. Pete decides that, whatever the price, he must find her...
