根据Andrea Levy同名小说改编。BBC新剧，2009年12月6日首播。讲述了二战背景下的一段困难重重的爱情故事。共2集。
Lives and loves entwine in Andrea Levy's award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in the Second World War.
London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women have both married in unpromising circumstances as love is a luxury neither can afford. As Hortense remembers her life in Jamaica and the profound love she had for Michael and his betrayal of her, Queenie also remembers her night of passion with the same Michael when her husband was away at war. Initially suspicious of each other, will they uncover the secret they share?

Philo 参加地下拳击比赛（没有带手套的）赚的钱比他在汽车修理厂乾活赚的钱多的多,因而他决定不再乾修车的了,但当黑手党来了之后组织了一次拳击比赛， 他也被迫参加到比赛之中。各方势力的纷争从此开始。