Tells the story of the 'Rape of Nanking' through the diaries of two remarkable women - Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary, and Tsen Shui-fang, her Chinese assistant and a trained nurse. Between them they protected more than 10,000 women and children during the height of the ordeal. Despite being physically and mentally exhausted they kept detailed diaries during the occupation which provide vital eyewitness accounts of the Rape of Nanking and its aftermath.