During World War II, an escape through the land of Korea leads to two lives changed. Sun-a is a Korean 'Comfort Woman'; Mick Bowler an English soldier, boy become veteran in the jungles of Burma. When their flight from Japanese imprisonment brings them together they begin a desperate escape across the mountains of Korea. Pursuing them, a relentless Military Surgeon, clinging to a Japanese past, set to crumble around him. Mothers Swam is a story reaching across continents, from The Empire of the Sun, to the Busan Perimeter. It tells of a tragic, yet hopeful journey, of a beautiful land torn apart, and of a love battling