Edith, the only child of a Dutch military man and his young, German-born wife, is born in the Dutch colony of Indonesia.
After the war, when the Indonesian revolution makes life impossible there for the Dutch.
Little Edie is incarcerated with her mother and survives trauma and horrific conditions, while her father is forced into slave labour on the infamous Burma railroad.
A happy childhood gets interrupted by WWII, during which her parents are captured and interned in separate camps.
Edith, the only child of a Dutch military man and his young, German-born wife, is born in the Dutch colony of Indonesia