1918 and they knew each other well and had since Noah came to the town where Vivien lived. He at seventeen was too young to enlist as a soldier but was determined to do so. She at eighteen was too pampered to be of use. Both decided separately to fulfill their dreams of helping to end a war which was causing so much bloodshed. When they meet on the boat on the way to Holland they do not realise how soon it will be before they both grow up in more ways than one.