“I pray the fulfillment of my promise and the contents of the letter might give you some comfort in the darkness of your hour.“

Thus begins the wartime correspondence between medic Peter Hess, acting on a dying man’s request and nurse Esther Lange, a young woman living with an unwanted engagement but a beloved child, the result of a night of foolish passion. Despised by her fiance’s family yet bound to them by her daughter and circumstances, Esther’s loneliness and despair is eased by Peter’s caring and attentive letters. Peter’s correspondence is a shining light in her life, …