The Purple Plain 1954 After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesnt care whether he dies The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forresters fitness for duty To break through the nightmare haunted mans wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman