The war is over. The reckoning is not.

It’s the hip 1950s on Sydney’s shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave - and stole - so much?

Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband.

Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won’t let him. Nor will his conscience.

Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there’s a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself.

Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry’s wartime memoir, then no one can postpone the reckoning.