1942: In the tropical splendor of the South China sea, as the Second WorldWar spreads across the far east, a young woman finds herself in paradise ... andthen in hell. Nurse Carrie Sutton is caught up in the Japanese invasion ofSingapore, suffering horrors beyond her wildest nightmares -- and survives Now, she attempts to start her life anew, buoyed up by a growing friendship witha wounded pilot, only for fate to deliver up the last thing she ever...