The narrative of a group of World War II projecting a dark cloud over their own lives in a rural Cheshire community of women. As the conflict separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers and takes hold, the characters find themselves under rising and extraordinary pressures at a fragmenting world. They help keep up with the country's fabric in its darkest hour , and discover inner resources that'll alter their lives forever by banding together because the truly amazing Paxford Women's Institute.