官方公布的主要简介说的是根据Andrea Levy同名小说改编。BBC新剧，2009年12月6日首播。讲述了二战背景下的一段困难重重的爱情故事。共2集。Lives and loves entwine in Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in the Second World War.London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women have both married in unpromising circumstances as love is a luxury neither can afford. As Hortense remembers her life in Jamaica and the profound love she had for Michael and his betrayal of her, Queenie also remembers her night of passion with the same Michael when her husband was away at war. Initially suspicious of each other, will they uncover the secret they share?
