With all the men away to war, Lily (Anna Friel) falls madly in love and marries a handsome Canadian soldier, Charlie Travis (Aden Young). But Charlie is shipped off to the front and Lily discovers she's expecting his baby, not knowing if she will ever see him alive again. Lily receives instructions from the Canadian Embassy that she is to be shipped across the see to her new Canadian in-laws. Life for Lily is about to improve, on arriving in Canada she is met by cold-hearted mother-in-law, Betty (Brenda Fricker) and crippled sister-in-law, Sylvia, Lily finds she has swapped one horrendous existence for another, as she must struggle to survive on a dilapidate farm in the bleak Canadian wilderness.
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