汤米（安东尼·罗杰斯 Anthony Rogers 饰）和拉斐尔（卢卡斯·伊文斯 Lucas Evans 饰）是学校集邮俱乐部的成员，两人都十分想要得到一本传说中在澳大利亚失踪多年的珍贵集邮册。汤米出生在贫困的家庭之中，有一个弟弟需要照料，因此，他常常靠着倒买倒卖邮票来赚钱。
有一次，汤米骗走并且卖掉了拉斐尔的一张邮票，在店里，拉斐尔非常巧合的见到了这张被骗走的邮票，但是他并没有足够的钱把邮票赎回来。店主不忍心看见拉斐尔失落的样子，于是送给了他一本集邮册，在集邮册里，拉斐尔震惊的发现了一封古老的信，信中记载了那本失踪多年的集邮册的下落
The story begins in 1996 when Colonel Sodhi, now 70, visits his sister and her family. However, even after over half a century, the nightmares of his intense battle and its aftermath often return to haunt him. Old Sodhi and young Amar begin to bond and Sodhi accompanies Amar to Burma (Myanmar) for an assignment from BBC to shoot a documentary on the students against the Military Junta for freedom and democracy. In Singapore, Sodhi visits the places which bring back the memories of him as a Lieutenant in the British Indian Army Lt. Sodhi meets a beautiful photographer Maya who inspires him to change. Sodhi falls in love with Maya who joins the Indian National Army. Old Sodhi lands in Burma with Amar, and is welcomed by an Indian girl Rani. They accidentally get caught in the student protest and firing by the Military Junta to suppress the student agitation. When the soldiers of the Military Junta get rough and violent with Amar and Rani, old Sodhi is suddenly transformed into the young Lt.Sodhi and kills the two Burmese soldiers to defend his group.Old Sodhi and his group's escape from the Burmese soldiers runs parallel to the attack by the British bombers on Lt.Sodhi's unit. In 1944, the Indian National Army, tired, hungry, cold, feverish, sick had reached Imphal to defend it against all the odds piled heavily against them. In a school set up by Rani's grandmother, Old Sodhi finds the photograph of Maya and realizes that Maya has been dead. Old Sodhi, finally redeems himself by helping his young group safely cross over from Burma into India, and keep his promise to Maya that he would one day return to Burma to find her and be with her when his body is blown by the Burmese soldiers to ashes and glory.
