Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at
the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman,
came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse,
a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her
aunt.
Little persuasion was needed for Mike to take Peter
Woodhouse to the airbase and over time he became the mascot
of the American squad, flying with them whenever their
Mosquitoes took to the skies. When their plane is shot down
over Holland both Mike and his canine companion are feared
lost.
But unknown to their loved ones at home, Mike and Peter
Woodhouse survived the crash. Taken in by the Dutch
resistance and with the help of Ubi, a German officer, the
pair to remain in hiding till the end of the war when they
are reunited with Val. We then follow Val, Mike and Peter
Woodhouse as they rebuild a life in England. And Ubi as he
returns to Germany at the end of the war and tries to build
a new life for himself. His dream is to run a Wall of Death,
a circus ring that pitts motorcyclists against gravity as they
attempt to stay upright at ever increasing speed...
