When can we go home Sir?

A moving account of sergeant Jamie Jones and his platoon of twenty-two men, as they escape from behind Japanese enemy lines in the Burmese jungle, and make their way to safety in China. After discovering a deserted airfield in the jungle. Jones and his men are shocked when an aircraft lands, and they are told the war has been over for eight months. Returning to civilian life is complicated for them all, although especially for Jones, whose wife has re-married.