repatriation of war dead

Explores the extraordinary, enduring commitment among U.S. soldiers to leave no one behind. On the morning of January 20, 1944, Major Marion "Ryan" McCown Jr., a Marine Corps pilot, took off on a dangerous mission against the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. His plane went down that day and was lost in the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Fast forward sixty years later as Major George Eyster V found himself in the same sweltering, impenetrable rain forest searching for MIA's. That's not all he would find there.

Centering around the burial of the Unknown Warrior in Great Britain in 1920, the story follows the lives of three women, Hettie, who is attracted to a man with hidden troubles, Evelyn, who is dealing with her brother who has not been the same after the war, and Ada, who meets a young veteran who knew her dead son.