France 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle's home in Paris to evade a marriage that will send her back to Shanghai. TO prevent the union, she needs the helpf of her cousin Theo, who has been working as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps in the town of Noyelles-sur-Mer. In Noyelles-sur-Mer, Camille offers Pauline a place to stay while she is Noyelles, the two women become friends. But it's not long before Pauline uncovers a perilous love affair that Camille has been hiding and the thruth about Theo. As their situation escalates into deadly danger, the two women are forced to make a terrible decision that will bind them together for the rest of their lives. Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe as noncombatant labor during WW1.