In 1942, a young woman fends off the fears and trials of war by reading the letters her lover sends home. When the letters stop coming, she falls into a secretive affair with the village postman, but his motives are not what they seem.
In the early 60s, an unemployed husband and father fights with increasing feelings of shame and unworthiness as his family deals with rising economic hardship. As social and personal pressures rise, he makes an irreversible decision.
