Virgina McKenna and Peter Finch are imprisoned in a Japanese-occupied Malaysia during WWII when they meet. A romance begins between the two of them as they help each other through their brief encounters.
The men become POWs and the women and children are forced to wander the landscape from camp to camp on the promise that they’d be transported to Singapore.
The film falls short compared to the book, and ends early plot-wise. It’s themes are drenched in simple to…