Watch for the Longest Day

It is December 1948. While their husbands self-sacrificingly remain at work in town, Sarah and her sister-in-law Jennifer spend yet another summer by the sea, watching the children in the deep water and trying to avoid the annual judgement-by-mother-in-law at the hands of the indomitable Alice. When Henry — a man who listens — is discovered to be at the centre of this family’s business, the daughters-in-law must stand firm and defy Alice, who guards their tragedy with all the calmness of the self-justified.