Broadcast: Oct. 4- Nov. 8, 1981 Jean Paget, a young English girl who lives in Malaysia, is taken prisoner by the Japanese shortly before the fall of Singapore. She and other women prisoners are forced to walk across the length and breadth of Malaysia, shunted from one Japanese commander to another. The trek is a nightmare, as many of the women and children die from diseases, snake bites or sheer exhaustion. Based on a true incident during World War II. Filmed on location in Australia, Malaysia, Scotland and London--this is the story about the prisoners of war whose romance begins during the Japanese take-over of Malaysia and ends in the vast Australian "outback."