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The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque du Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen.

In this hard-hitting and incisive documentary we hear many military wives speaking forcefully, movingly and humorously about the tensions and difficulties of being married to the military family. Illness, abuse, death, separation, uncertainty, insecurity - all of these are problems faced by military wives. The military has always relied on women, not only to keep the home fires burning, but also to keep up the morale and behaviour of the troops on the front-lines.