Pat Barker

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

Uma viúva em dificuldades se apaixona por uma cozinheira analfabeta que ela ensina a ler e escrever em sua cozinha todas as noites.