Anne Maguire and Diana Brenton are both fighting their adored sons' desire to enlist against Hitler, while Howard Brenton MP follows the tense debates in Parliament Emmanuel Lansky has taken in two teenage Jewish refugees from the Nazis, and Anne is locked in combat with her daughter, Stella, who has her eye on Rupert Brenton - until GIs arrive Diana is caught up with Max, her old lover, and Esther, recovering from her broken heart, is moved by the love of good men going to war The determination of these folk to reshape the future of England and themselves gives them all the strength for the morning