On the eve of World War Two, the lives of an Irish family in Westmeath are about to be changed for ever. Spanning three generations and taking in the battlefields of Syria and Egypt, a farm in Australia, night sorties over Germany, Lincolnshire airfields and the horror of a Sumatran prison camp, this is the story of brothers Nick and Tony, their sister Rose, younger siblings and parents fighting to preserve their country and dreaming of home.