A young man runs out of petrol on a deserted country road. As he looks for somewhere to buy petrol, he meets a beautiful girl who offers to help him. The girl takes him to her family’s home in a small village. The young man soon realises that this is a strange village – the people are dressed in old-fashioned clothes, they cook over a wood fire and they use horses instead of cars. The girl’s father has never even heard of petrol! As the evening wears on, the girl becomes sad and tells the young man he has to leave. The young man tells the girl he is in love with her and that he will return. When he finally reaches the town and goes to the garage to buy petrol, the young man asks about the strange village. It is then that he learns the strange truth – the village was destroyed 350 years earlier during the English Civil War, and the village and the people who live there only reappear in our time once every ten years. The young man decides that his love for the girl is greater than his love for the present day and decides to be there the next time the village appears, and to stay with the girl in her time.