Set on the windswept coast of wartime England, this beautifully crafted historical drama follows a fiercely independent woman whose quiet, isolated life is unexpectedly transformed when a young evacuee from London is placed in her care. As bombs fall in the distance and painful memories begin to resurface, an unlikely friendship slowly heals old wounds while revealing a long-buried love story shaped by loss, sacrifice, and the impossible choices forced upon an earlier generation
It’s 1975 and Alice Lamb, played by Penelope Wilton, is cussing at her typewriter and telling cute children to “bugger off.” When we cut back to the same typewriter some…