Will she ever discover the truth?

Ella Elkington wakes up in hospital with minor physical injuries but no memory. She cannot even remember her own name.

The doctor treating her tells her that she had a car accident and has been identified by a letter found in a handbag. Asking to see the letter, hoping to find out about herself, she learns the letter is now missing.

When the hospital tracks down her brother, he visits her, and Ella has glimmers of childhood memories.

After she is released from hospital, with the help of diaries and letters, and her long-time friend Sheila, Ella begins to piece together her past. She learns she was a nurse during the war, who was sent to work in a mobile hospital in France after the D-Day landings.

But, haunted by nightmares, Ella struggles to understand how she ended up in the accident.

What happened to the missing letter?

And who is the young man who haunts her dreams?

In order to understand who she is, Ella must face a terrible truth in order to make peace with the past and find a way to live again...