WWII is over and the troops are coming home. Four
women who live in a small village near Penzance await
their husbands' return with mixed emotions. Carrie
Pollard is excitedly awaiting the arrival of Archie, her
POW husband. Still feeling like a newly-wed despite
several years of separation, all she wants is the chance
to leave her parents' cramped home, to feel like a
proper wife and to start married life in a prefab. Gwen,
meanwhile, devastated when her husband's ship was
torpedoed and he was listed as missing, presumed dead,
threw herself into a series of love affairs. Now she's
had a telegram to say her husband is coming home.
Shirley became pregnant by an American GI, but had an
early miscarriage. She is now full of guilt and doesn't
know whether to confess to her fiance. Velma, the oldest
of the four women, became a bus conductress while her
husband Stan was away driving tanks. Having tasted
independence for the first time, she plans to ask Stan
for a divorce. With life returning to a fragile
normality, and more than one buried secret being
unearthed, the four friends discover that they are not
the only ones to have changed, mentally, physically and
emotionally.Their men have returned with their secrets
too - and nothing will ever be quite the same
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