在1943年一个阳光明媚的英国下午,距离第二次世界大战还有两年结束,七个孩子(Colin Welland、Michael Elphick、Robin Ellis、John Bird、Helen Mirren、Janine Duvitski、Colin Jeavons)在迪恩森林玩耍。他们的游戏和自发动作反映了他们对二战的认识,但没有成年人在场打扰。然而,当一个无害的恶作剧出错时,他们天真无忧无虑的一天突然变成了致命的一天。这部丹尼斯·波特的剧以传统上成年演员饰演孩子。
A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls, some whose boyfriends are also away for the war. One Yank/Brit relationship that develops is between married John, an...