Two sisters. One becomes a dedicated nurse in World War One, the other mysteriously disappears. An Anglo-Indian Doctor discovers she has trained to be a spy working behind enemy lines.
Type:
Feature
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
100pp
Genre:
War
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
Everyone
Synopsis/Details
Doctor Vikam Ram develops a friendship with a new ward sister, Lorna Brooks. They often speak on his rounds and going for a meal, Lorna reveals her sister Clara has disappeared. Vikam promises Lorna he will look for information on leave in London with his colleague Trevor Stanhope. They ask questions at the translation office Clara worked and at her last address. They find out Clara had an officer admirer. That night they meet their friend Eugene Decker and it's revealed his brother Geoffrey is the admirer. The Doctors visit Clara and Geoffrey finding out Clara is being trained by Geoffrey as a spy, however she does not want Lorna to know. Returning to France Vikam is transferred to a Casualty Clearing Station until German attacks force its closure and he returns to the base hospital and Lorna, although the final German push gives them many days of casualties to deal with. Meanwhile Clara has infiltrated German HQ and becomes the lover of an important officer so able to access secrets which she passes on to a French agent. A German aviator then creates a love triangle. The Allies advance. Convinced there is a spy, German suspicions falls on Clara. She must get to the Canadian lines with a map of the German defences. But after a night and day through shelling, rain and cold, she's trapped in barbed wire until discovered by a Canadian patrol. In hospital with pneumonia, Clara is reunited with Lorna. Geoffrey dies in a drunken accident and Trevor admits his admiration for Clara. Then the aircraft flown by the wounded aviator crashes into Lorna's ward. Vikam is able to rescue her from the flames. The following day peace is declared and the war is over.

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The Writer: Paul Maher

I began taking an interest in media related subjects in the 1980s especially photography, being self-taught, doing mostly Black & White. Fortunately I was at sea then so had the opportunity for travel to help my photography. During this time I completed the Bureau of Freelance Photographers Photo-Journalism course which taught me how to write correctly and I had a number of publishing successes. In 1988 I lived in Gibraltar for a year as manager/trainer of a gym, then in Greece for eighteen months. I had an extra role in the Niko Mastorakis film Hired to Kill. I returned to England in 1992 and attended Southport College full time to study for a BTEC National Diploma in Photography which… Go to bio
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