A charming Australian bomber pilot travels to Canada during World War Two to train for combat and has an affair with a farmer's wife while her husband is away in the army. Elsewhere, a female bootlegger forms a relationship with an American flight instructor. Romantic drama, starring Russell Crowe, Christianne Hirt, Peter Outerbridge and Scott Kraft.

This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.