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In Absentia

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On the morning of his wedding, just one week before his regiment is due to embark for the 1944 Allied invasion of Europe, Gunner Frank Swift is having second thoughts. What’s the point of tying the knot with the woman he loves if he’s only going to get blown to bits a few days later? As he wrestles with his conscience, he encounters an old man who tries to convince the young gunner to do the right thing and marry the love of his life. In parallel to this, some sixty years later, Maureen, worn out from years of caring for a father with declining dementia, arrives at the family home only to discover that he’s gone missing. Worried for his safety and well being, she knows things cannot stay as they are. Something has to change, but first she has to find him.

Director – Charles Sharman-Cox

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