The Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge United States Army Air Force airfield lands in the middle of their rural parish in 1943.
5 x BBC ONE hours. 66 day shoot in winter. Tough schedule - kids, weather, US cast, period vehicles, tides, more weather.....

Director: ADRIAN SHERGOLD
Producer: GRAINNE MARMION
Designer: TOM McCULLAGH
D.O.P. TONY SLATER LING
LP: GERALDINE HAWKINS

Cast: Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell, Eileen O'Higgins, Aaron Staton