Until They Sail

A four-way love story based on a Michener story serves as the plot for this soap opera set in New Zealand during WW II. There is a quartet of New Zealand sisters, each with her own problem. Most of the local men have gone off to war, so when a horde of fun-loving American soldiers descend on the city of Christchurch, the local female citizenry are thrown for a loop. Fontaine is the spinster sister, a woman who hides her emotions and keeps men at arm's length until she meets Drake, a captain, and falls hard and fast for him. He is slain in action, and she is left with a living memory inside her, a child he has fathered during their brief but ecstatic romance. Laurie...