The theme is the effect of war on succeeding generations. Of three main threads, the first concerns an Australian, Jake, who sees a close English friend and fellow prisoner of war die by friendly fire in Germany. He eventually takes his friend’s widow and son to Australia. Fifty years later, when she learns of this, his granddaughter travels to the UK to research family history and find the truth behind her troubled growing up.The second is Luke, whose adored grandfather was badly damaged in the First World War. The third is Minkie, a young Bosnian woman who has returned to war-torn Sarajevo after being fostered through her teenage years by a couple in a village in middle England. This village of Daerley Green in Oxfordshire is where all three threads come together as the truth of the various circumstances unfolds and unlikely relationships are made or broken.
