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Young lovers Ruth Beckett ( Karen Meagher ) and Jimmy Kemp ( Reece Dinsdale ) decide to marry due to an unplanned pregnancy.

As they and their families are introduced into the plot, news reports over the course of several weeks indicate that the Soviet Union has invaded Iran following a coup, and that the United States military, with British support, has intervened.

As the situation escalates and events transpire, Sheffield City Council is directed by the Home Office to assemble an emergency operations team, which establishes itself in a makeshift bomb shelter in the basement of the Town Hall.