Adventures, Romance and War in the Far East is a fascinating true story based on the diary and memoir of Iris Hay-Edie, an attractive and free-spirited Scottish girl who grew up in the glamorous French Riviera during the 1920s. Suffering under her strict mother, she ran away from home and never turned back.
Iris leads us on an enchanted journey around the world to what were then remote outposts of waning European empires during the 1930s. Reaching Hong Kong, she falls in love, but soon after, the Japanese invade China, bombing her new home with her and her young family inside it. Opting to...