The railway station had been empty since the closure of the line in 1940 But Englishman Roger Hawthorne, the war hero with a mutilated body and a scarred mind, painstakingly restored it with Damian's help Then they were killed in an explosion and the station slipped once again into neglect Helen paints and remembers, recalling the burst of happiness which both men brought into her life and lamenting the grief-stricken present