On the evening of D-Day, The Quarryman's Arms is packed with revelers. Jack, the owner, works the local Welsh-speaking bar, while Sarah, his seventeen-year-old employee, tends the English one. As Churchill's growl echoes through the air, cautious hope pervades the crowd -- the turning point is coming. After the rush dies down, Sarah spots Harry Hitch, a drunken radio comic whose wife died in the Blitz, and Colin, an English soldier and her sweetheart for the last week. Her widower father, with whom she runs their impoverished household, avoids her eyes as he sidles in and out. As Sarah cleans up and listens to the two groups, she contemplates her dual identity, British and Welsh, and wonders what she really thinks about nationalism. The moment is interrupted by Harry's drunken request for another drink. Before long, he embarks on a long string of xenophobic, anti-Welsh jokes at Sarah's expense, and Jack barely restrains Colin from attacking him. Colin will be leaving the next day for the invasion, so after Sarah locks up, they go for a walk, bantering as they go. Underneath the tarp covering a drained pool, he makes very aggressive moves on her, and she has to fight him off. He, too, resorts to xenophobic insults when Sarah curses him in Welsh, and she takes his bike back home, his Englishness reverberating painfully through her skull.