Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp,…

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Haunted by relentless nightmares foretelling his untimely demise, former President Robert Wainwright summons his past psychiatrist to his upstate residence, who discovers the threat may be more real than imagined.

A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.