A spellbinding story of love and rural Australia set in the back drop of World War II.
It is the summer of 1941 and three Italian prisoners of war are taken first to a foreign country and then to a remote farm in Western Australia. The country is hostile, the landscape is foreign, and so are the people, but this is where they are to serve their time, working as free farm labour. To Max and his mother, these bedraggled figures are welcome hands on a farm that barely keeps them in food.
The foreign becomes familiar as they work side by side during the day and eat together in the kitchen at night. It is an uneasy peace, but it works; that is, until Eddy comes home. Eddy is a nurse who's been posted to Allied theatres of war, stitching up soldiers ripped apart by the enemy's guns and shells.
When she returns home to find respite, she instead finds that the enemy has been sleeping in her room and is eating at the family table.
This is the story of a country at war and of enemies, family and friends. For Eddy, Max and their mother, and for Guiseppe, this is a time for asking who is their enemy and for discovering that family are not always friends.
