Poppies Grow on Broken Ground

When Welsh soldiers left for war in August 1914, their families were promised they’d be home by Christmas. But the war raged for more than four years and over 40,000 soldiers never returned.

Everyone in Abercolwen, a coastal farming village in The Vale of Glamorgan, must endure the fear and uncertainty wrought by the savage war on the continent and must cope with the many ways it transforms their daily lives, tearing at the social fabric of their community. In the wake of her father-in-law’s unexpected death and her husband’s deployment to France, Megan devotes herself to the hard work of managing the family sheep farm, while coping with her increasingly vindictive mother-in-law whose long-held secrets could derail the family. Haunted by his experiences in the trenches, her childhood friend Jac arrives in Abercolwen with tenuous hopes of returning to his former life as a shepherd. He reconnects with another villager, Alys, and hopes that their love can help him start a new life. But as their relationship develops, Jac is forced to come to terms with the invisible wounds he has carried home from the war.

With the war raging on, the villagers persevere until they receive shattering news which means they must regroup and work together like never before.