Año 1944, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras sufrir un accidente, Walter, un joven soldado alemán, es enviado a una pequeña unidad en los bosques polacos rodeada de guerrilleros partisanos. Pronto se debate entre el sentido del deber, la culpa y su propia conciencia, un conflicto interior que se agravará tras enamorarse de Wanda, una guerrillera polaca.
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.
During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.