Italy 1944, Grace, a military nurse, is injured in a German plane attack and loses her leg. For her, the war is over.

Lying in a military hospital south of Rome, Grace decides to escape the convoy back home. She wants to recover, become a nurse once again, and tend to other wounded soldiers.

John, who was blinded from his injury, lies in bed next to her, and at night Grace begins to read him letters from the woman awaiting him back home. He's the only one who doesn't see her disability.

But, as Grace becomes more attached to John, she starts lying to him, afraid to hurt his feelings and destroy their relationship.

Entangled in lies and trying to hide her injury, Grace realizes she may not find someone to love her, and that the path to recovery will be harder than she thought.

Through her own eyes, Grace tells the story of the never ending war at the Italian front with the wounded soldiers arriving to the hospital, the bomber pilots fighting against the Germans, and the other nurses around her, but most of all, it's a story of a young woman who struggles to love herself again, despite her disability.