In November 1945 corporals Harvey Moon and Lou Lewis return to London from Bombay, where they sat out the war as stores clerks. Harvey's house has been destroyed - not by a bomb but his wife Rita's incompetence with the gas cooker - and his family have moved to a pre-fab. However, since he was reported missing Rita believed him dead and would have married a Yank, had he not already had a wife. Unlike his young daughter Maggie and ten-year-old son Stanley, Rita is not welcoming and Harvey and Lou move in with Harvey's mother.
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