1948: Indo China
Lee Crane is an American pilot flying demobbed air transports – C47 Dakotas – across South-East Asia for the highest bidder. He’ll fly anywhere, transport anything if the money is right and he’ll ask no questions. But his experiences during World War Two still haunt him, and when he meets a woman from the past, memories of a time when his innocence was shattered threaten to ground him.
1941: Burma
Crane is a young and carefree pilot. He’s flying P-40 Tomahawk fighter planes for the notorious Flying Tigers, the American volunteers who are helping the allies defend against the Japanese. He’s one of the best pilots in the air. But when he falls for a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl, she has a devastating effect on him. As the war ignites across the region, Crane is separated from her by the lightning Japanese advance into Burma. The Imperial Army creates chaos in Indo-China, killing indiscriminately, and all around him people are looting and lining their pockets while Crane desperately needs to return to find his lover, no matter what the cost.
