In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Mrs. Anne Hilton
Jane Deborah Hilton
Lieutenant Tony Willett
Bridget 'Brig' Hilton
Colonel William G. Smollett
Clergyman
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II
Fidelia
Mrs. Emily Hawkins
Zofia Koslowska