At Shamshuipo the entire camp attends a play written by one of the prisoners. The Golden Road is set soon after a time everyone's yearning for: the end of the war. A POW rushes home to be re-united with his fiancee but discovers she's married someone else:
Her explanation that 'two years is a long time' was greeted by the audience with the tense silence of men who recognized in it a horrible truth.
Source:
Andro LInklater, The Code of Love, 2000, 120
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