The title refers to the two minutes of silence kept throughout the U.K. on Armistice Day, November 11, 1919. The Great War, the war to end all wars, was officially over. At least on the battlefields. But not quite over in the homes of the bereaved, the unemployed, the poor, or the wounded who had lost limbs, sight, and more. The story relies of written accounts and interviews about the years 1918-1920. Britain had changed as had the world. A moving, stark, and sentimental telling of the post-war era.