 Based on the best-selling novel, John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins, that the New York Times called "a powerful story that not only pulls you through to its final pages, but also propels you back to the beginning again, where you find you want to follow her decent into hell a second time." Set in Burma after the First World War, this dark drama follows the classic story line of Lord of the Flies, as eight British schoolgirls become marooned on an obscure island with the Captain of their expedition. It is a tragic tale of love, betrayal, survival and innocence lost.