A Roman Catholic mission is caught in the cross-fire of opposing

rebel warlords. A timely and dramatic portrayal of current events in this

international hot spot.

SYNOPSIS:

Ten days at a Catholic mission in Kashmir. Local forces break under the ferocious tribal rush of Pathans and Afridis taking part in the riot and massacre that was part of India's price for partition in 1947, about sixty people of many nationalities are trapped. They include nuns, two priests, Sikh and Hindu women and children, a war correspondent named Crane, a young English Colonel and his wife, a nurse from Glasgow, an English girl and her mother, and a dancer from the brothels of Bombay. In the first attack several are killed. The rest, fortified and led by the two priests, supported and nursed by the nuns, remain to resist with courage, fortitude, and humor: ten days of nightmare.