The arrival of Land girls and the army turn life upside down in a Yorkshire town Lorna Hatherwood, a middle-class housewife, lives sheltered from her emotions by marriage to a dull husband, ten years her senior Then the Army arrives and Lorna's restricted life expands as she catches the roving eye of a handsome young medical officer Ness Nightingale is on the run from a disastrous love affair She joins the Land Army, only to find herself in the arms of another suitor But he is a conscientious objector, and maybe not that suitable after all