An energetic young London girl marries a Canadian soldier in 1941 in the midst of the Nazi bombing campaign, and quickly gets pregnant. As the wife of a Canadian combatant, she is shipped off to his home in poor, rural Alberta in 1943 with their young daughter, but without her husband, who is off fighting the war.
When she arrives at the primitive family home on the plains, she has to learn how to get along with a dour mother-in-law, a crippled sister-in-law, and other unwelcoming and unsophisticated locals she doesn't know.
This is a well-executed "fish out of water" tale, that highlights the plight of World War II British war brides sent off during the war to the "safety" of their new husbands' distant homes and families. Recommended.
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