Christian Bale stars in this powerful Chinese war epic, as an American trying to protect a group of schoolgirls and courtesans from Japanese soldiers in 1937 Nanjing. As the invading Imperial Army overruns China's capital city, desperate civilians, including Westerner, John Miller, seek refuge behind the protective walls of a cathedral. With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, fate always has a way of bringing the most unlikely heroes together.