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Lancashire, 1917. In the final years of the First World War, soldier and former music student Daniel Earnshaw miraculously survives the explosion that kills many of his comrades. Recovering in hospital, he meets Elissa Church, widow of one of the dead men. Carrying the guilt of survival when so many of his friends are dead, Daniel discovers that Elissa also has a secret shame of her own. Days after he returns to the front, Daniel is caught up in a bloody and brutal battle. When she learns that he has joined the ranks of men missing in action, Elissa is certain that he is dead. Now she has to fight her own battle with the deadly flu virus that comes hard on the heels of the war’s end. With peace comes another, stranger meeting – and one more sacrifice before the season can turn again to spring.