They were supposed to become doctors.

 Instead, they sailed into a war.

 It is 1932, and after years of relentless school work, Raji and Fuse stand on the brink of their dreams—until the world collapses beneath them. The Great Depression has shuttered schools across America, including the academy that changed their lives. With their future stripped away, they make a bold and desperate choice:

 They leave everything behind.

 Bound for India aboard a freighter carrying dynamite, the two friends chase something neither can name—escape, purpose, perhaps even destiny.

 In Calcutta, Raji is reunited with the family she lost as a child, but the joy is fleeting. A suitor chosen for her reveals himself to be a fraud, and the fragile bond between Raji and Fuse begins to fracture.

 Fuse departs for Burma. There, in the ancient city of Mandalay, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous new world—one of rebellion, political unrest, and a woman who burns with hatred for the British Empire that rules her land.