1. Best of Friends
2. The Girl on the Night mail
3. The Day the lights went out
4. Your Country needs you
5. Soldiers of the King
6. Hands across the Sea
7. The last Day of the Year
This 7 episode mini-series is about the friendship between Walter Gilchrist (Scott McGregor) and Billy Mackenzie (Scott Burgess) before and during World War I. Andrew McFarlane plays Robert Gillen, a 28 old man from a good home who hasn't joined the army. While he is engaged to a girl in Argentina he starts a love affair with Frances (Sigrid Thornton). Frances who didn't like Robert in the beginning suffers from the absence of Walter who had enlisted in the army. While her best friend Diana (Jackie Woodburne) expects a baby from Billy and writes to him all the time, Frances disregards Walter's letters and concentrates on the relationship with Robert. Only after a while when she realizes that Robert's mother doesn't like her and his father gets intrusive she leaves Robert, which is followed by a tragic accident …
Deborah Kennedy and Andrew McFarlane
as Robert Gillen and Sharon Keeley
left: Damon Sanders as Harry Crowell
Sigrid Thornton and Andrew McFarlane
New Year's Eve 1914
Spring 1915: Robert invites Frances and her best friend Diana to spend a few weeks at his parent's house with him.
... and Frances gladly accepts his invitation.
Frances is disappointed because Robert has to leave her
for two days to look after some sheep.
After her friend Diana had been seriously sick
for over a week, ...
Robert takes advantage of the situation
that Frances is very exhausted.
After this night Frances decides ...
to leave the Gillen's residence.
