The Still Hour
2012, 12 minutes
A war nurse must help others in her community to accept the loss of her brother overseas.
Nurse Caroline Wood is training in a blitz stricken hospital in Plymouth, 1940. She recieves a telegram from the front, where her brother is fighting for the British forces. She is unable to open it and that same night is required to go on a night visit to care for the mother of a soldier on sick leave, suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. The air raid siren goes off and Caroline spends the night in the shelter. When she wakes up the next day, her patient is dead. She finds the strength through this ordeal to open the telegram. Returning in the early hours of the morning to a heavily damaged hospital, Caroline discovers the shell shocked soldier, who's mother is now dead and cares for him as a war nurse would; selflessly and in memory of the dead.