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In 1918, America is at war with Germany, and for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to enlist alongside men. Ten thousand women rush to do their part. Among them, German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists to prove her patriotism, suffragette Blanche Lawrence to assert the equality of women, and shy preacher’s daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the US military deploys to France and the war intensifies, these three yeomanettes find friendship and sisterhood within the Navy. However, their plans for the future are upended when Viv's dark past finally catches up with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFast forward to 1968, and newly divorced Peggy Whitby is reeling from personal tragedy when she unexpectedly inherits her estranged great-aunt Blanche’s beach cottage outside Norfolk, Virginia. 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