The young men sent to fight on the front lines would never be the same, but millions of others felt the First World War's impact: nurses, stretcher-bearers, miners, pilots and those left behind. The devastation it wrought on a small Devonshire community was mirrored all over the world, but for the people of Plymstock the upheaval was something new and unimaginable. This collection of stories draws a web of connections between men and women changed by war: a war that tore people apart and sometimes, surprisingly, brought them together.