he story_ begins in 1996 when Colonel :?Sodhi, now 70,%$ visits his sister and]) h.`.er fam:@# :i\ly;. Howe=$@ver,  even after over half_ a ,$centur[-.y, t? he $]#nightma/!res of hi\s intense batt __`le( and its*# a+=_ftermath often return to /+$ha# unt him)@. Old So ]d+hi and youn#g]? Ama$r b[e /gin to b+:ond and S:+@odhi ac companies Amar to Burm[.a (Myanmar) for:/+ an ass$ -+ignment / @from BBC -#to(^ shoo+%t a+,% do
\=cume]`?ntary -]on )(the @\students against the) * Military Junta*^
for ?#+freedo-m and democracy. In Singa ?pore, , Sodhi visits! -]the places which bring? bac
-;k @!!)_the (!memori=-es of hi_!+^m as a Lieut=enan!= t* in : the#* British Indian Army L.-.t. S )odh@;i m?eets?^ a bea-=*)utifu-l photographer: Ma/,y/.a who^/ inspires him= to change. Sodhi falls ^in @^love \[with%;\ May=]#a who j[=oins the In
d/ian N+:ati/,on _al Army`). Old S]odhi la/;-nds in Burma with Amar, and is welco`((med by an -..Indi]an /)girl Rani.;^ They accidentally  ge:
t caught; in the student pr::$ote st and firing by t.h-[e #_Military Junta to supp%$ $re\(ss the stud+ent;)?. a- gitation ]. When the so;:+:l^diers of the,  Milita#+ry Junta g+:%et rough and\@ violent with*# \_Amar and/ R[ani,?[ old Sodhi is suddenly  )/transfor@me;=_d int@ o :the young Lt.Sodhi a [n,`d kills t^-/he two Burmese s\oldiers to defen $!d ($his group.Old Sodhi and his group\'s es
!c!ape ,fr!om t+?.?he Burme#s$*$e soldi$
e+rs run\*s parallel to the attac[%k?\ by%# the Br_.tish b^ombers on Lt.Sodhi\'s u/,ni;[^t. In\  19.;44, the In-d`ian National A\. \rmy, tired, =$hungry,]% !c

ol%/d $, f$+everish\, (sick*# had); )-reached Imphal to % defend it ag`+ai[nst al:l* @*!the*@ (%odds piled heav+ily against th+em?) . In a school set up by`. Rani\'s gra^(ndmother, Ol#d Sod`:=hi f-ind#(s the p (hot@ograph o- f Maya a#nd@ reali?#zes that Ma:ya has be= en d\@ead. Old Sod hi, fin]a/lly /re ?dee%*ms -himself by h_ ^elping hi(s ,y.oung group safely cross over from Bu*r ,m;_a@` into-*,%! India, a;?*n^d keep hi):s promise to Ma[,
ya that he %_would one? day /]#return to Burma to fi
nd her :)+a=n,+d be with her *^:when his body is b!lown by the Burm^^-ese*=
_ ]$ sold^ $$ier=[s to ashes and /glory.