Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages. Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called Gerry Cunningham. "You're out of luck, brother," are the first words Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for a few women at a dance at a seaside hotel, but when Gerry betrays his lover Moira, Adam's fortunes seem to have changed. For the next four years, Adam and Gerry's lives are intertwined like good luck and bad, life and death. Their paths crossing at various points on Adam's perilous journey from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside, from Egypt to Occupied France