Portree punases - Jody Shields

It is the first spring of the First World War. In the silence of a gorgeous manor house close to London

Catherine, a young married woman, mourns her husband left on the battlefield. He

the decision to honor the late brings a sudden change to the lonely days

husband's desire and permission to settle in the exquisite rooms of the deserted mansion

a military hospital where soldiers with severe facial injuries would find shelter.

When the wounded arrive, Catherine doesn't want to know anything about them, until one day

he thinks he recognizes a familiar attitude in the men...