Jase is a soldier who falls for a girl at a gig in Newport. He finds out Charlotte is a music writer from London - and his blood goes cold. Because all his life he has hidden his very limited literacy. He is desperate to see more of her, so signs up for a writing course she is teaching in west Wales, concealing from everyone that he can barely read or write. Lust becomes love despite their differences. But Jase is called away by the army, back to...