 The first scene is based on a true story. In 1942 Peter  ODonnell (I) (qv) was on a scouting team in what they then called  Persia. Making sure the Germans wasnt going through there to  capture the oilfields in the middle east. They were sitting under  their camouflage tent one day and a 6 year old little girl (probably  homeless) was looking at them from a small distance. They gave her a  can of McConnochies and then she left. They never heard from her  again.