A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to recontruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

Jim was born in the home of a British businessman , from childhood to live abject poverty , Jim had one wish is to dream of becoming a fighter pilot , driving beloved warplanes flew up into the sky ; the outbreak of World War II , the Japanese occupation of Shanghai , Jim and separated from their families were sent to a Japanese concentration camp , but he has seen here have long admired the "zero " fighter than three years of concentration camp life makes the previously naive Jim added a fraction of aging and not only learned "To eat what do" concentration camp truth , and people doing things have become much more smooth than before , so that even the Japanese sergeant of his new light , it ...