Suffolk, 1943 Each dawn, thousands of American airmen take off to strike Germany's industrial war machine Each dusk, hundreds fail to return The American base in Bedenham brings upheaval, uncertainty and unease For Billy Street, a fourteen-year-old streetwise evacuees, it's a time of unlimited opportunity and acceptance in a community he loves For Billy's schoolteacher, Heather Garrett, awaiting word of her missing husband, it's an inward spiral of fear and islolation For Lt John Hooper, a brilliant but traumatised US pilot coming to terms with the death of his entire crew, it's the start of a desperate struggle for sanity and redemption