The Heroes' Welcome

April 1919. The Great War has ended and childhood sweethearts Nadine Waveney and Riley Purefoy are married. Riley is wounded and disfigured and they long for a marriage made of love and passion rather than dependence and pity. Riley's former CO Major Peter Locke, his hysterical wife and the young son they barely know attempt to navigate family life, but are confounded by the ghosts and memories of war. Despite all this, there is the glimmer of promise in the distance: Rose Locke, Peter's cousin and Riley's former nurse, finds that independence might be hers for the taking, after all.