If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood. Til the clouds roll by: based on the life and music of Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern...

This Australian drama set during the Second World War is a story of one week in the lives of three remarkable women who run a beauty salon in the posh South Pacific Hotel.

Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.

World War II turns Molly's family upside down. While her father is away, war breaks out on the McIntires' home front.