Marie Tsien

Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...

1949年の香港。未亡人の女医スーインはあるパーティで米国人記者マークと出会った。急速に接近する二人。だが、マークの離婚問題をはじめ様々な障害が二人の前に立ちはだかった。そしてマークは朝鮮戦争に従軍し……。ラブ・ロマンスの名作。