A New Beginning

Grappling with the traumas of their past two strangers set out on a journey across a war-torn Europe in search of a new life together

Northern France 1944. With two of their men wounded a company of English soldiers take shelter in a convent. Also seeking sanctuary there is Joliane a young Frenchwoman who is wanted by the local Marquis for supposedly collaborating with the Gestapo. Discovering that when they leave, she will be taken away and shot, in gratitude for her help in treating the wounded soldiers Albert Clemens, the company sergeant decides to take her with them.

Discovering the town where he hoped she would find safety is in ruins, traumatised by events in his past, and disillusioned with the war, Clemens asks her to run away with him and begin a new life together. Indebted to him for saving her life and with little hope of returning to her home Joliane agrees.

Guided by fate the two set out on an odyssey across a war-torn Europe. A journey which will test their blossoming relationship to the limit as they strive to throw off the shackles of their past lives and find the new beginning they both desire. But as they quickly discover the past is not about to let them escape its clutches.