The true story of Doris van der Stratten, an Australian housewife who at the outset of the Second World War survived a massacre, a five-month trek through the jungles of Malaya, incarceration with POWs and then became the mistress of the Japanese Commander of the Kuala Lumpur Garrison, before finally and fatally encountering the Japanese military police the dreaded Kempetei. This is the story of her extraordinary life and tragic death.