Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla Cuthbert's death. Gilbert has been offered a staff position at a hospital in New York, and persuades Anne to come as he has arranged a position for her at a large publishing house. Big City life isn’t what they expected. Anne’s manuscript is stolen by a dashing American writer, Jack Garrison, and Gilbert becomes frustrated with the politics of working in a large city hospital. Anne convinces Gilbert to go home to Avonlea so that they can be married and put their horrible experiences behind them. When they return to Prince Edward Island, they are catapulted into the middle of wartime society. Gilbert soon feels the pressure from the community and enlists as a medical officer. Anne’s hopes are shattered when Gilbert is listed as missing in action, which takes her on a cross-Atlantic search for him, as the fury of war is unleashed around her. A bizarre twist of fate reunites Anne with Jack Garrison, now working as a war correspondent. He is traveling with a young French girl, Colette, and their baby son, Dominic. Colette is killed during an attack on their field hospital. Anne learns of Jack’s role in an American intelligence effort to end the war. Her affiliation with him lures her into a web of intrigue in exchange for help in finding her husband. Jack falls through on his promises. As the war comes to a close, Anne searches for Gilbert far behind enemy lines in a German POW camp. She finds herself alone, as stranger in a strange land, separated from the man she loves. Will Anne Shirley rise to the occasion? Will she be reunited with Gilbert? Will she every return to Green Gables? Is a family in the future for Anne Shirley?
(Textquelle: Sullivan-Entertainment)
