Each in His Lonely Night

Opening a suitcase after the death of her parents, a daughter finds bundles of love letters covering their early courtship, their romantic life in British Malaya, their separation during the War and their parting by death.

Stifled by colonial life in remote backwaters, the letters reveal her rebelling mother indulged in affairs. When Japan invaded, her mother escaped, but her father was captured and sent to Thailand. After anguished years of waiting, postcards arrived confirming her father's...