It’s VE day, 1945, and Winston Churchill declares “a brief period of rejoicing” to celebrate the end of the war with Germany. Street parties are organised all over the country. Our scene is a street party to celebrate VE Day. The street is a row of Victorian terraces with back yards and outside toilets. The house at the corner of the street has been hit by a bomb and is now a derelict site where the children like to play. Round the corner from the bomb site is the pub, the Fox and Hounds and beyond is the “big house” where the Thomas’ live.
The period of rejoicing comes to an abrupt end with the murder of a local black-marketeer…