Lucinda Howes

When a man faking a leg injury meets a woman pretending to be pregnant, they strike an unusual connection based on shared dysfunction and a reluctance to face their past.

A naïve Bianca reveals the risk she's prepared to take to clear her mother's debt but her sister, Maria thinks she's gone too far this time.

Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle's wife prior to the war.