Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such conditions is hard to envisage - but it did. This tells the story everyone forgot - of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50, 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.