German prisoner of war, Rudi Buchold, goes to work on a farm in Devon rather than be repatriated to his home in East Germany. There, he meets the beautiful Jenny Moore, daughter of farmer Ben Moore. The couple fall in love and want to get married but there are many obstacles in their path not the least one being Rudi's desire to see his mother again in East Germany. Things go disasterously wrong when he makes the trip to his homeland and Jenny is left waiting.