Movie Description:
Soon after England declared waron Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part ofa public project. She was49 and fearful that she wouldn`t be able to cope with her son`s enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. This award-winning drama notonly recounts her experience of wartime privations, butalso her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and airraids, Nella`s volunteer work for the war effort fills her with an exhilarating sense of purpose.