A story of passion and courage against a backdrop of World War II - Helen Conroys happy family is shattered when her husband asks for a divorce. Then, in September, 1942, US troops pour into Mowbray. For the Brits, life will never be the same again. Captain Simon Johnson, a US military intelligence agent, is billeted with the Conroy family and he and Helen fall deeply in love.As the US troops leave for action, Helen and her daughter, now a war bride, cling together as they listen to daily bulletins of the invasion of Normandy