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A coming-of-age history set against the background of conflict and changing ideals in modern culture.Fifteen-year-old Kate Wolseley lives a rarefied life of riches and privilege in the expatriate community. However when the Japanese take over the colony in Dec 1941, she's interned in squalid Stanley Camp with her parents. Forty kilometers away, in Macau, Sofia Rodrigues' suspicions are aroused when her father invites a Japanese family to evening meal, an event that causes a breach between Sofia and her controlling 50 percent brother, Leo. Enduring cramped conditions, humiliation, disease, and hunger, Kate befriends 17-year-old Charles - who's 50 percent Chinese - plus they give their hearts to the other person under the orchid tree. Can their love endure the battle? In Dec 1948, Kate returns to Hong Kong, motivated to put days gone by behind her. Sofia dreams of giving Macau and starting a new life, and she won't let anyone, not even Leo, stop her. A young Englishman, Wayne, becomes the hyperlink between Kate and Sofia. The communist-nationalist have difficulties in China spills over in to the colony, catapulting the protagonists in to the turmoil with devastating consequences.
