During the Sino-Japanese war in 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China. She has to help the surgeon, Dr. Okabe, with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she shows sympathy to some of the soldiers. She has a sexual relationship with one soldier who has lost both arms and has no chance of going home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe and follows him to the front, even though he can't have sexual relations because he's addicted to morphine.
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During the Sino-Japanese war in 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China. She has to help the surgeon, Dr. Okabe, with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she shows sympathy to some of the soldiers. She has a sexual relationship with one soldier who has lost both arms and has no chance of going home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe and follows him to the front, even though he can't have sexual relations because he's addicted to morphine.
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