Shinas cup of sorrow is always full but she never gives up hope. Thrown out of their town home after her husbands death, she takes her family to live in their country home. Things change drastically when she refuses to comply with the local tradition to marry the man they choose for her. Angry relatives ransack the house and share her goods before her very eyes. Several months later, just when things return to normality, she is violated and ends up carrying her rapists baby. Her rapist, a savage self-styled war lord even orders her sons execution and burns down home. She seeks sanctuary in a cave confident of someday being rescued. Not so far away, Colonel Eddie Toad is mobilizing the army and civilians to rebuild the community torn apart by the ruthless and unruly soldiers under the guise of rebel warfare. His world changes when one day, he finds Shina the only woman he truly loved on her deathbed. Her marries her and adopts her children. Captain Slater and his cronies do not like Colonel Toads work and plan to eliminate him.
