The End of the Affair

In this drama, based on a novel by Graham Greene, and set during the bombing of London in WW II, two lovers find their affair disrupted by a bomb that mortally wounds the man. The woman prays that he will live. In exchange for his life, she vows to return to her husband. He lives and she keeps her promise. She then pays a terrible emotional price for her decision., Sarah Miles–the unhappy wife of a meek civil servant–falls into a passionate love affair with American expatriate writer William Bendrix during the London Blitz. After an air raid interrupts one of their trysts, Sally inexplicably cuts the affair short, and Bendrix never quite gets over it. After the war, he hires a detective to find out what made her change her mind., In this adaptation of the Graham Greene novel, set in World War II London, a woman cheats on her husband.