Its 1944 and the chaos of war means societies fracture, traditional expectations are collapsing, and peoples lives are the collateral damage. For Sally and Matt, caught together in a fading Missouri idyll and from wildly different backgrounds, there is hurt and anger. They are worlds apart but, as Wilsons play suggests, anger plus hope can equal change. Now, as then, upheaval, division and disquiet stalk continents and damaged and displaced people must find each other no matter how difficult those connections might seem.