![]() ![]() The Far Side of the Sky focuses on a short but extraordinary period of Chinese, Japanese, and Jewish history when cultures converged and heroic sacrifices were part of the everyday quest for survival. ![]() Facing starvation and disease, Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate. The danger escalates for Shanghai's Jews as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The chemistry between them is intense and immediate, but Sunny's life is shattered when a drunken Japanese sailor murders her father. At a refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic nurse, Soon Yi "Sunny" Mah. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. ![]() Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews.ĭr. November 9, 1938― Kristallnacht―the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. ![]()
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