An adaptation of an H E Bates story, set in an isolated Wiltshire farm in 1942. With her husband a prisoner of war, a lonely wife (Jackson) strikes up an intimate relationship with a young soldier (Deacon), a farmer's boy who hates the army. When he impulsively deserts, she hides him, disguised in drag as her sister. The inevitable tensions of their life are increased when two soldiers from the nearby camp discover the 'girls' and the lecherous sergeant (Reed) takes a fancy to the one in drag.