The story follows in the wake of Carole whose world falls down around her when she finds herself fighting the ultimate battle: namely, saving the life of her son Martin, who has witnessed the abuses committed by powerful palm oil companies in Borneo and who has been wrongfully sentenced to death following a rigged trial.
A love story played out against a backdrop of political and religious upheaval. At the end of the Second World War, 38 year-old career soldier Gian Singh resigns his commission with the British Indian Army and returns to his childhood village, near the bo
