While the Men are Away — Season 1, Episode 1: Get Behind The Girl He Left Behind!

Episode synopsis

In 1940s Australia, the men are off fighting in WWII and Frankie finds herself in charge of her farm. She decides to enlist the help of two city dwellers to keep it running.

About While the Men are Away

While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm – but can the improbable freedom and kinship they find survive beyond the war?

More episodes from Season 1

• E2Furrowing the Führer's Brow
• E3God Speed the Plough and the Woman Who Drives It!
• E4She Talked! This Happened!
• E5Come And Join The Victory Harvest!
• E6Catch Him With His Panzers Down!
• E7We've Always Despised Them, Now We Must Smash Them!
• E8We Took the Hill, Come and Help Us Keep It!