Kevin Connor and his family mother Josie brother Paul and sister Lucy lived and tried to survive in world war two, with not much food and little luxuries times were hard for the family, their father Bernard was away doing something very secretive for the army on a need to know basis and the family had no need to know.

Then one day a letter came from the government telling them their father had been killed in a road side bomb in North Africa, not really knowing their father as he was away a long time there grief not that turbulent, so they try and live without their father.

Lucy worked at the local cinema while she studded to become a doctor one day, there she met an American Airman named Danny and fell in love after a few off-putting moments one she fell over him while carrying the ice cream tray in the interval while he crawled along the floor looking for his glasses, and then the mother found out she was going out with a yank and all hell broke loose but warmed to him in time and when he brought around some exotic food for Sunday lunch she was hooked on him.

Paul was training to become and engineer one day, while trying to date every girl in the district. When his father is killed he then joins the army to the sadness of his mother knowing she has lost her husband to war now she may lose her son, Paul is sent to Singapore for training but is taken prisoner by the Japanese when the take Singapore and is transferred to Changi prison and then on to the infamous Burma railway.

When Kevin grows he becomes a journalist and is sent to Wales to check out a commune run by some guru that people in high places think they are dealing drugs, but Kevin finds someone from his past when in the air raid shelter back in wartime and also comes across a girl from his past, then he is sent to Korea by his paper because the Korean army have captured a soldier for spying who they believe is Kevin’s father who is supposed to have died in Africa and he has to go and identify him to exchange him for American soldiers captured by the Korean’s, and in return Kevin gets the help of a general to find out if Paul is alive or dead because he wants him to come home for the wedding of Lucy if he is alive.

Lucy marries Danny the airman after going to America to meet his family and they in turn come to England to meet Lucy’s family and make arrangements for the wedding where the mother meets Dannie’s father and something happens and a surprise for Lucy.