A true story set in Burnley, Lancashire tells how Joe and Betty despite enjoying the most blissful courtship imaginable, now face a very uncertain future. ItÕs 1939, the world has turned on its head and Joe and Betty are about to discover their lives will never be quite the same again. Joe enlists in the army and is eventually posted overseas to the most inhospitable and dangerous place imaginable whilst Betty is left to work and look after ailing parents in the austere conditions the country now faces. Their relationship continues through the only method available. The simple letter. Feelings, desires, difficulties and hardship are laid bare on simple pieces of paper. Could their love. endure the enforced separation ? Would Betty be faithful ? Would Joe survive ? The letters reveal all and yet each one could be be the last letter to Dean Street.