Pearl Lafferty confronts her bigoted father. Ellen Burns receives a visitor who brings troubling news. The reality of war is made plain to Mary and Betty Burns.
A small group of surviving ships seek shelter in the Matochkin strait to prepare for the final dash to Archangel. Donald McIntyre finds himself caught up in the struggle to save his ship.
Mary Burns had quite enough on her mind never mind the coming of war: a troublesome daughter, an ailing mother and a husband seemingly always away at sea. Family issues do not disappear for the duration of the conflict. Just how will Mary handle these and other situations that life will place in her way?
Bessie McIntyre is out of place in her tenement. Her refined manner grates on her neighbors. Ella McLennan sets off to visit her daughter and new grandson and finds herself in one of the worst air raids of the war, the Clydebank Blitz. In the process, Ella finds an unlikely friend.
Charlie Burns's ship sails to Dunkirk with critically needed petrol for the British Expeditionary Force. He finds himself stranded on the beaches with thousands of soldiers. The fate of Britain hangs in the balance.
Donald McIntyre has had a troubled relationship with his mother. Nothing he has accomplished appears to please Bessie. Then, a gift he brings back from America awakens memories in Bessie and leads them to a different place.
The enemy mount ferocious attacks on the beaches and the harbor of Dunkirk. The losses are increasing. Charlie Burns find help from an unlikely source.
Mary Burns has had no word from Charlie. She discovers that his ship has been sent to Dunkirk and spends many sleepless nights. A neighbor receives news that shocks Mary and Ida.
Donald McIntyre joins a new ship and finds himself on a convoy heading into Arctic waters.
37 min
About Roses of Winter
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They had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Share the adventures of the Burns and McIntyre families in World War 2 Scotland.
Follow the lives of four strong women as they strive to keep their families together while their men are at war. Sail with the men into hazardous scenes of action as they deal with the conflicting moods and emotions brought by constant danger. Roses of Winter recreates the experience of living through the world's greatest conflict as the characters seek to survive and imagine a future. Discover along with them that even in the winter of wartime flowers may yet bloom.