The loss of a family shop leads a young British Caribbean girl to consider her identity and sense of home.

Griff McCleary is a cop, now his son shot himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move out. Now he is investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide. He believes that there was no suicide. His investigation leads him to a girl named Nikki.

第二次世界大战爆发前不久：二等兵阿什和炮手维尔拜因属于同一部队，但却截然相反。