Paradise Road

After the Fall of Singapore during the World War II, the last women of different nationalist and children flee in a British Navy ship. However, the ship sank by the Japanese airplanes and the survivors reach the Island of Sumatra. They are sent to a Japanese POW camp and abused by the soldiers under the command of Colonel Hirota and Captain Tanaka. Some of the women dies of diseases, especially malaria; others are murdered by the Japanese, others become whore of the Japanese officers expecting to have food, silk sheets and soaps. Most of the others, led by Adrienne Pargiter, who is graduated in the Royal Academy of Music, and the missionary Margaret "Daisy" Drummond, organize a vocal orchestra initially to sing Dvorak, to relief their situation and hunger in the camp.