Suffolk, 1939: Julia Compton — wife, devoted mother, sometime musician — has a comfortable, settled life. Then, on the eve of war, a film crew arrives in town and she falls passionately for bohemian director Dougie. .The consequences prove devastating. .Cut off by family and friends, penniless and ill-equipped to fend for herself, Julia is cast adrift in wartime London. When bombs rain down, invasion looms and her affair begins to sour, Julia faces a terrible choice: succumb to her fate or forge a new identity in the heat of war. .