1941. Arcadia, Florida. The US has not yet joined the war, but has agreed to train the British pilots the RAF desperately needs. Rob Stallard, stunned from the loss of both his parents and his grandmother in the London Blitz, is reluctantly learning to fly in the stifling Florida heat. Far from home and his sister, the former farm boy is out of his depth - and furious at the American cadets treating the training so casually while his countrymen are...