The war is over, the soldiers have gone home, but now the people who survived are forced to reconcile their differences and understand this person is not their enemy any longer. The Railway Man has a similar plot, but I’d prefer if the people involved didn’t actively know or fight against each other in the war (especially not the prisoner/torturer dynamic in that book). It’s more about their general prejudice and dislike of the enemy country.
The story can be based on true previous wars or a fictional universe. I’m also fine with this being a background plot in any type of story.
by stockholm__syndrome