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It's late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF planes flying overhead is an ominous reminder that war looms.

The prospect of conflict troubles sensitive Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a young widow who owns a chunk of rural Suffolk on which large mounds of earth rise up in a flat field as if the land is infested by a gang of gargantuan moles.