During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.

Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared