When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white child she's actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive
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In Pontypridd, in 1939, blackouts & conscription are beginning to strain the community. & three women are separated?perhaps forever?from the men they love. Jenny Powell's husb&, Eddie, abandoned her on her wedding night, & she must struggle to cope alone. Italian Tina Ronconi's sweetheart enlists, & she & her sister face internment as enemy aliens. & Bethan's doctor husband is called up, leaving her, along with all the women, with endless worry & fear. Forced to adjust to a world at all, all they can do is wait. Then comes news of the Allies' retreat at Dunkirk &, for many, life will never be the same again.