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==Plot==
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Amid [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japan's invasion of China]] during [[World War II]], Jamie "Jim" Graham is a British upper class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the [[Shanghai International Settlement]]. After the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], Japan begins occupying the settlement. As the Graham family evacuate the city, Jamie is separated from his parents and makes his way back to their house, assuming they will return. After a length of time alone and having eaten the remaining food, he ventures back into the city.

Hungry, Jamie tries surrendering to Japanese soldiers, who ignore him. After being chased by a street [[Street children|urchin]], he is taken in by two American [[expatriate]]s and [[Con man|hustlers]], Basie and Frank. Unable to sell Jamie, they intend to abandon him in the streets, but he offers to lead them to his neighbourhood to loot the empty houses there. He is surprised to see lights on in his family home and thinks his parents have returned, only to discover that the house is occupied by Japanese troops. The trio are taken prisoner, transported to the [[Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre]] in Shanghai for processing, and sent to an [[internment camp]] in [[Suzhou, Jiangsu|Suzhou]].

Now it is 1945, nearing the end of the [[Pacific War]] and World War II, and despite the terror and poor living conditions of the camp, Jim survives by establishing a trading network—which even involves the camp's commander, Sergeant Nagata. Dr. Rawlins, the camp's British doctor, becomes a father figure and teacher to Jim. One night after a bombing raid, Nagata orders the destruction of the prisoners' infirmary as a reprisal but stops when Jim begs forgiveness. Through the barbed wire fencing, Jim befriends a Japanese teenager who is a trainee pilot.

One morning, the base is attacked by American [[North American P-51 Mustang|P-51 Mustang]] fighter aircraft. Jim is overjoyed and climbs the ruins of a nearby pagoda to better watch the action. Dr. Rawlins chases him up the pagoda to save him, whereupon Jim breaks down in tears—saying he cannot remember what his parents look like. As a result of the attack, the Japanese evacuate the camp. As they leave, Jim's trainee pilot friend goes through the ritual [[kamikaze]] preparation and attempts to take off in a Japanese attack plane. The trainee is devastated when the engine sputters and dies.

The camp prisoners march through the wilderness, where many die from fatigue, starvation, and disease. Arriving at a football stadium near [[Nantong]], where many of the Shanghai inhabitants' possessions have been stored by the Japanese, Jim recognises his parents' [[Packard]] car. He spends the night there with Mrs. Victor, a fellow prisoner who dies shortly thereafter, and witnesses flashes from the [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing of Nagasaki]] hundreds of miles away.

Jim wanders back to the Suzhou camp. Along the way, he hears news of [[Surrender of Japan|Japan's surrender]] and the war's end. He is reunited with the now-disillusioned Japanese teenage pilot, who remembers Jim and offers him a mango, drawing his [[guntō]] to cut it. Basie appears with a group of armed Americans to loot the [[Red Cross]] containers being airdropped over the area. One of the Americans, thinking Jim is in danger, shoots and kills the Japanese youth. Basie offers to have Jim come along with them, but he chooses to stay behind.

He is later found by American soldiers and placed in an orphanage, where he is reunited with his mother and father, though he does not recognise them at first.