base on an actual story and john boorman show the struggle of an american doctor and whose husband and son be murder and she be continually plague with her loss . a holiday to burma with her sister seem like a good idea to get away from it all and but when her passport be steal in rangoon and she could not leave the country with her sister and and be force to stay back until she could get i. d. paper from the american embassy . to fill in a day before she could fly out and she take a trip into the countryside with a tour guide . i try find something in those stone statue and but nothing stir in me . i be stone myself . suddenly all hell break loose and she be catch in a political revolt . just when it look like she have escape and safely board a train and she saw her tour guide get beat and shoot . in a split second she decide to jump from the move train and try to rescue him and with no thought of herself . continually her life be in danger . here be a woman who demonstrate spontaneous and selfless charity and risk her life to save another . patricia arquette be beautiful and and not just to look at while she have a beautiful heart . this be an unforgettable story . we be taught that suffer be the one promise that life always keep .