A good old-fashioned love story. While "the times they are a changin'", we're not quite there yet·
Firs aired as a two-part mini-series in Britain, but it airing on PBS as a feature - still neatly in two halves, though. The first half is the sad, doomed love story of two World War II soldiers, Michael and Thomas (Oliver Jackson-Cohen and James McArdle). After the war, Michael unhappily marries a woman, Flora; Thomas begs him to imagine what their lives together could be like, but homosexuality was still criminalized in England at the time, and jail time was not unusual. The second half is set in the present day and centers on Flora and Michael’s grandson, Adam, and his own struggle to come out in a still-homophobic society.