It's 1915 and sixteen-year-old Australian Flora Wentworth is visiting Cairo with her archaeologist father. She watches with growing alarm as first a trickle and then a flood of wounded soldiers are shipped into the city from Gallipoli. Flora's comfortable life is turned upside down when a hospital visit thrusts her into the realities of World War I. She is soon transporting injured soldiers and helping out exhausted nurses—managing to fall in love along the way. As Flora battles to save lives and find her own, a tragic misunderstanding changes everything...