In the modern day, adult Norman Starkey goes to the fictional village of Westbourne in Shropshire where he was evacuated during the Second World War.

Episode 1 (Sent Away) 15 January 1996 Middle-aged Norman Starkey, a former wartime evacuee, finds his old scrapbook, and decides to write a book about his experience, so he heads back to Westbourne.

Norman is driven to nearby Wells Farm where he is taken in by kindly Amy Hobbs, who has recently taken in another evacuee named Dennis Sealey.

He goes for a walk by the river and meets Mike Johnson, a lieutenant from the nearby U.S. Army base who shows him how to fish.

When the woman asks for directions to the village, Polly, convinced she's an enemy spy, intentionally sends her the wrong way and thinks they've seen the last of her – until she turns up at the front door!

Episode 6 (Bombs In The Country) 19 February 1996 The mystery woman introduces herself as Vivienne Belling, and she claims to be a government photographer.

Episode 7 (Surprise) 4 March 1996 Polly and Dennis narrowly avoid being killed by the German plane's bombs.

The next day, however, an even bigger surprise awaits the kids in their secret meeting place (the greenhouse at Westbourne Hall).

Also, in another attempt to get Amy to leave the farm, Grainger pulls some strings to have Luigi moved to Westbourne Hall.

Episode 10 (Captured) 25 March 1996 The children learn that Grainger and Miss Millington are simply black marketeers rather than spies.

Polly leads them to the quarry where Dennis has managed to free Norman and Mary, who trap Grainger and Millington in the shed.