In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie Brown starts her married life living with her husband Jeff’s family: an overbearing mother-in-law and a brother-in-law whom her husband detests. Valerie Brampton and her lawyer husband Ross have their own property but with a past girlfriend still holding on to hope of a relationship with him all is far from settled. As they learn more about their new husbands can their marriages formed in the uncertain times of war survive through peacetime?