Predicated on a narrative, this play focuses on a tiny set of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers preserved imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. Gordon tries to take an attitude that proves to be resonant, a approach while Campbell would like to rebel and attempt an escape.