Maggie is a young woman of 19 who lives in Kells Bay in Southwest Kerry in Ireland. She is given the opportunity by the village doctor, Dr. Charles Cavendish, a retired British army surgeon, to train as a nurse in a hospital in London. At the outbreak of the second world war Maggie volunteers to go to France to work in a field hospitalMeanwhile back in Ireland her mother becomes gravely ill. She begs Maggie's childhood sweetheart, Joe O' Riordan,...