Acorn Media Australia announces the DVD release of Housewife 49, a stirring new drama that shows the war as both an ordeal and an opportunity for an ordinary 49-year-old Lancashire housewife.
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. Inspired by her published diaries, Housewife 49 depicts the hardships and terror of wartime as well as its liberating effects. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella’s volunteer work for the war effort fills her with an exhilarating sense of purpose. She also gains the confidence to cope with her son’s enlistment and confront her domineering husband for the first time.
