Eve"s husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.
When a grandmothers secret past collides with her granddaughters secret future and her daughters angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
An adaptation of eponymous novel set after WWII, spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.