- Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li, Lin
Ji, Matt Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova, Ping Su, Imai Hideaki
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of George Hogg, a young British
journalist, who rescues 60 orphaned children. He leads them on a treacherous 1000-mile
journey along the Silk Road, through the Liu Pan Shan Mountains into the spectacular
Gobi desert. Over the course of the journey he falls in love with a determined, self-trained
nurse, and makes a friend in Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group. Madame
Wang, a surviving aristocrat, assists in guiding them to safety in a remote village
near the western end of China's Great Wall.