In the Second World War, Albert Laviolette was with the Veteran’s Guard of Canada which had various roles, such as guarding military installations, or maintaining security at prisoner-of-war camps in Canada.

Source: https://thereview.ca/2023/11/07/those-who-sleep-in-flanders-the-vankleek-hill-ers-of-the-2nd-company-11-platoon-87th-battalion-canadian-grenadier-guards/

Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” was composed while he was incarcerated in Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp, during World War II.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/arts/music/classical-music-albums-december.html

She is still active in the group even after her father was released in January 2023 in a prisoner-of-war exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-russia-captured-civilians-prisoners-of-war/

The story is told over multiple time periods, as we journey from Evans’ childhood to his experience as a prisoner-of-war on the Thailand-Burma Railway as a young man, and later in life, as a respected surgeon and Australian war hero.

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/11/ciaran-hinds-odessa-cast-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north-1235627507/