text: This is my contribution to the Second Lauren Bacall blogathon, hosted by Crystal at In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood.
  One of the truths in life is that all the people we meet are going through inner battles we can't see or guess. Placid eyes can hide turmoil and people with agitated minds can disguise the anxiety with calm manners. Every now and then, this truth is explored by films. One of those films was “I’ll Be Seeing You”, a Christmas movie that looks nothing like a Christmas movie, and a film made during the war and featuring a soldier, but not the way we expected him to be.
  Two people meet on the train. They are “saleslady” Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) and soldier Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten). When they have some time alone in the noisy train, they chat and get to know each other – only the basic information, of course. Mary says she will visit her uncle in a town named Pinehill. Zack then decides to also stay in Pinehill and go after Mary.
  But they both hide something. Mary was in jail, and is now on probation spending Christmas vacation with her family due to good behavior. Zack was in the hospital and has just received a brief leave to experience Christmas outside and try to live with his PTSD under control.