Brian Saxby is missing. Saxby on a lifelong journey in search of his soul befriended Tom Brent and set him on the path to find the soul of India. But war interrupts many journeys and throws suspicion in many directions, even in the direction of the Chinese Love Pavillion, a harbour for exhausted men where the harbour mistress is a Eurasian girl of great beauty – Teena Chang. Madame Chang had lain with numerous men – but where did her loyalties lie?