Malta Story.

Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross (Alec Guinness) is on his way to an RAF posting in Egypt but is stranded in Malta due to the air attacks. He is assigned to the RAF squadron there, being an experienced photo reconnaissance pilot. Peter meets Maria (Muriel Pavlow), a young Maltese woman working in the RAF operations room. The two fall in love and spend romantic hours in the Neolithic temples of Mnajdra and Ħaġar Qim. The situation at Malta becomes desperate and civilians are buried under the rubble of air attacks and famine threatens their survival.