A story of love and heartbreak set in post-war Burma. It is the story of Vicky Randall and the three men who were to play an important part in her life. Henry O'Malley, a doctor and heroic survivor of imprisonment in Thailand; Alan Rowan, a Chindit whose love for her kept him alive through the war; and her husband, Connor Daly, whom she loved but who considered their marriage a cage from which he had to be free.