Jeanie spends the entire war waiting for a man who comes back as the enemy. That's the show, not spectacle, just the specific hell of loving someone on the wrong side of history. By the time they can actually be together, the person you were waiting for isn't the person who returns.

Jeanie, a girl in Virginia, holds on to a promise she made as a child: she will marry her old sweetheart, Robert. She waits for him while the American Civil War rages, but the conflict complicates everything. When Robert finally comes back, he is a soldier fighting for the North. The drama traces their bond through the war years and the many troubles that stand between them and the wedding they once imagined. The story draws on a novel by Ishinomori Shiro and on a song by the American songwriter Stephen Foster, who wrote it with his wife, Jane McDowell, in mind.