When Robert Ashton returns to Gascony, that remote corner of France where he had spent several months in hiding from the Germans during World War II, it is with very mixed feelings: gratitude towards the French farming family who had saved his life - and a yearning to see their daughter Jeanne, mingled with a fear of what he will find. For the legacy of the Occupation still haunts that beautiful part of the country, and its people have never welcomed...