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On a remote island in British India, a mute four-year-old and the local girl who cares for him disappear on the eve of Japanese occupation, forcing the boys parents, a young anthropologist and her physician husband, to take drastic measures to save the children.

When journalist Aidan Shaw disappears in Kashmir, his wife Joanna refuses to believe he is dead. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Lawrence Malcolm, and Kamla, a girl she saved from an Indian brothel - or flash house - she sets off on a harrowing and treacherous journey to find him.