During World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love's endurance in trying times. — IFC Films During World War Two, a reclusive Englishwoman (Arterton) finds her life up-ended when a young evacuee (Bond) from the London Blitz is left in her care. Initially resolving to be rid of him, she finds herself opening her heart in this moving story of womanhood, love and friendship.