The episode features several poignant wartime items and their stories, including a timepiece from Royal Navy veteran John Holloway, who serviced cockpit clocks on the HMS Formidable, and a small plastic doll named 'Haisi' that accompanied Jewish orphan Ruth on her escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna to the UK. The episode shows experts working to restore these items, highlighting their historical and emotional significance.

Prominent individuals include John Holloway, a 101-year-old Royal Navy veteran who brings a special cockpit clock, and Ruth, a Jewish orphan whose doll 'Haisi' is restored. The episode also features horologist Steve Fletcher and his son Fred, who work on the clock, and plastics restorer Charlotte Abbott, who works on the doll.

The episode shows Adam Schoon being moved by a yellow star worn by a Jewish prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, which was gifted to a Canadian liberator. It also portrays the delicate restoration of Ruth's doll 'Haisi,' emphasizing the fragility and preciousness of these personal wartime relics.

The episode recounts Ruth's extraordinary journey as a Jewish orphan smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Vienna to the UK without papers, with her doll 'Haisi' as her lifelong companion. It highlights the subterfuge at Dover customs that enabled their escape and the subsequent restoration efforts to preserve the doll's damaged limbs.

Restoration experts, including horologist Steve Fletcher and his son Fred, as well as plastics restorer Charlotte Abbott, are shown carefully working to repair and preserve significant wartime artifacts like the cockpit clock and the doll 'Haisi.' Their work underscores the importance of maintaining these tangible connections to history.