After an eventful childhood in London before and during the second World War, Margaret, an attractive intelligent young woman, finds herself in a disappointing marriage. She tries to end the marriage but is persuaded to stay, and resolves to do her best to make the marriage work. On a trip to Casablanca with her husband she falls in love with a man with a heroic military history. He asks her to stay in Morocco with him but she decides to remain with her husband and they part, each trying to forget the other. They meet again by accident fifteen years later and, as both their situations have altered, they are able to spend the rest of their lives together. Travel through Morocco in 1953 with Margaret, and go on the run from a POW Camp with Tony.