It's a summer's day in 1953 that turns Hilary Napier's life upside-down. When Marianne, a beautiful French woman, knocks on her door, Hilary is taken aback by Robert, the young boy with her. He has the same eyes as the brother she lost in the war... As the village of Burracombe tries to make sense of the strangers in their midst, there is also much to celebrate. A wedding is planned, a birth is imminent and a courtship just beginning. Yet as always, life is complicated and some people must learn cruel truths about the world.