The story follows a young woman and two young men from their first meeting in a derelict room during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II; through the woman's marriage to one of the men, who turns out to be the "wrong" one; then finally to a new start with the "right" one.
[2] A British reviewer called the play "Charmingly old-fashioned and chastely sentimental, [yet it] gave a lot of pleasure.
"[3] This same production, with Eileen Atkins replacing Dench, opened on November 14, 1967, at Henry Miller's Theater in New York; it ran for 23 performances.
The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway.
A newspaper ad for the Broadway run can be seen in the final scene of the tenth episode of the second season of the show That Girl.