Roger Bowler, aged twenty-one and from Oxford is a navigator on a Lancaster Bomber in WW2. He is sent to America to train as a pilot. Whilst there, he needs an operation. At the hospital, he meets Belinda, an eighteen-year-old nurse-aid. He jilts his English fiancee, Susan and marries Belinda. Due to health problems he fails to become a pilot and is sent back to the U.K. Belinda's uncle, a senator, pulls strings so she can join him. On the way to England her ship is torpedoed. IS BELINDA ABOUT TO DIE? WILL THE ENGLISH GIRL, AFTER ALL, GET ROGER WHOM SHE LOVES TO DISTRACTION?