In Love and War is a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie, directed by John Kent Harrison.

Eric Newby is an English soldier in 1943, captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former mansion in Italy.

The mansion is beautiful, Prisoners are well fed and receive Red Cross packages regularly.

While Wanda and her Italian girl friends bicycle past the mansion, Eric spots her, and she returns his glances.

The local people build a secret small residence in the surrounding hills to hide Eric.