Year 2003, Irene a young film student who is preparing a short film. To star in it, she meets Julio, with whom she quickly falls in love. But time and life take them down other paths, extending to the present.
World On Fire series two will take viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France, Nazi Germany, and to the sands of the North African desert, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat.