If I could tell you

Suffolk, 1939: Julia is a young wife and mother, whose husband Richard's good looks mask his crashing conventionality.

When she falls for the dashing but unreliable documentary filmmaker Dougie she gives up her staid, provincial life and moves to London to live a bohemian life with him, unwittingly and agonisingly losing the right to see her young son along the way.

In London she quickly realises how useless and unskilled she is at anything, and the great romance is not all it seemed.

But then the war intervenes, a new sense of purpose arrives, and Julia discovers she has a rare gift.