"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--

Thao is a young Vietnamese woman who sits in a wheelchair with physical deformities due to the effects of Agent Orange. Despite her struggles, her one driving desire is to buy more books for her makeshift library. Half a world away an American woman, Elizabeth, is fighting a crippling depression brought on by her famed younger sister's sudden death. When she hears of Thao's wish, she experiences a spark of hope. She travels halfway around the...

One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.