**The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the
dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk
**
In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a
disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by
society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds
that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary
until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes
to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair
develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting
together for the arrival of the birds every autumn.
In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores.
The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help
evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale
of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.