The first episode of a television drama series based on the occupation by the Nazis of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. This episode focuses on 1940.

Winter 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands. The Kommandant orders a crackdown on civil disobedience. A young boy unwittingly aids the Germans.

A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.

Edward Bree and his mother are evicted to make way for a gun emplacement.

Last programme in the first season. A British destroyer has been sunk by a new, fast German torpedo boat. Clare Martel and Petere Porteous are determined top get details of the vessel to London.

Dr Martel has been sent to a French prison. A new Commander-in-Chief has been appointed on Guernsey.

Foster-Smythe has replaced Martel on the civilian controlling committee. His attitude is dangerously cavalier.

Hitler orders the deportation of all residents not born on the islands. Marjory Clifford writes an anonymous letter - with consequences far beyond her wildest imaginings.

While working on the construction of a German gun site in Nazi-occupied Guernsey, a Russian prisoner of war kills a guard and escapes. But those who shelter him run terrible risks.

April 1943 in the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands. A neutral Swedish journalist arrives in Guernsey at the invitation of Goebbels to gather material for an article on what the Germans regard as a "model occupation".