It's February, 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. He and his wife, Catherine, are separated by three years - but so much more.
By 1944 Robert's letters had dwindled, and one night Catherine found herself so desperate with loneliness and fear that she got drunk on bootleg gin and went out to Kings Cross. There she found company, and trouble, and a US Marine named Lewis with whom she spent the next week.
Now, unbeknownst to Robert, Catherine has had a baby, and her determination to forget her baby, and forget Lewis, is matched by Robert's determination to forget the terrible things he has experienced on the battlefield in New Guinea. Neither of them manage it.
Catherine finds herself torn between two men, and longing for all that she has lost; Robert struggles to reclaim the happy home life they once shared. Can they rediscover the good times?
