newsman Judith John Wilkes leave her hubby and two son in Sydney and travel to Malaya to cover the narrative of the Vietnamese boat people. She become romantically involve with Kanan, and strike up a friendly relationship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keep a regular vigil at “turtleneck Beach” where the refugee try to set down in secret in the hope that one day her own child will get. attach to Minou one nighttime, Judith witness a barbarous slaughter by the Malaysian which spur her on to expose the horror of the internment camp at Bidong.