This story contains events in this young girl"s life which may be considered controversial.) In the1920"s, A five year old girl child called Tula is rescued from flooded Islands by Missionaries, and nick-named Patches. Adopted in Australia, she is christened Patchula Montarro. After her parents death, she"s fostered by an American family who return to America, and later the father develops an unhealthy obsession towards her. At sixteen she"s kidnapped, forced into prostitution, escaping a year later. Learns photography, nursing, and becomes a popular singer, but is injured in a gang assault. Enlisting in the Army and sent to New Guinea as a nurse, photographer and singer during the war 1944, she and five soldiers hide from Japanese troops in the jungle and experience near death. An island missionary assists the return of two of them to America. In 1945 she discovers her real father too late, then receives amazing news from Australian Lawyers. Returning to the Islands to help them,...