England, 1943... and in war-torn London Elizabeth Creacey and Katherine Swan, two student nurses at Saint Bartholomew"s Teaching Hospital are brought together to form a friendship founded on tragedy. A friendship destined to dramatically impact upon the lives of many others throughout the next fifty years. Romance catapults Elizabeth into sexual awakening and into the world of a mysterious British army officer with a French accent and a mission. Elizabeth"s wartime diaries surface in 1992, into the hands of the man who has slept with his brother"s wife. In the midst of a 90"s commercial power-struggle, this potentially destructive knowledge falls into the wrong hands and the emotional time-bomb explodes...