Maddie Renshaw lives a lonely life on Scapegoat -- an isolated sheep farm high on the Yorkshire Moors. Her only companion is her tyrannical father, James. But the outbreak of the Second World War brings winds of change and three strangers to
Max Bower -- tall, attractively dark, enigmatic, an Austrian refugee and a Jew -- comes to labour on the farm.
Eva -- sharp-tongued but irresistible is a nine-year-old evacuee.
Ronnie -- an army deserter brings menace and fear.
Winds of change sweep into a world which seems unchanging -- and unchangeable.
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