Table Of ContentRussia (1900-1922); China (1922-1937); The Japanese Occupation (1937-1945); After the War (1945-1949); Exodus (1948-1951); The Stragglers (1950-1954); Australia, Land of Opportunity.
SynopsisA moving account of a close-knit family during a tumultuous era. Colonel Tarasov and his wife Aida and their five children suffered the traumas of the Revolution and Civil War. They fled to China , lived under the Japanese Occupation, then became displaced persons on a remote island camp in the Philippines before settling in Australia. Told by their grandson Gary Nash (Igor Ivashkoff)., Gary Nash tells the story of his Russian grandparents who suffered the traumas of the Revolution and Civil War. They escaped to China and found their new life shattered by the Japanese invasion. It is a story of courage and determination. Gary was born, of Russian parents in Tiensin. The family were eventually moved to a displaced persons camp in the Philippines and finally reached Australia. Aida, the grandmother, held the family together and eventually they were all in Australia.