ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, THE FIRST STEP IS THE HARDEST:
Tom Anderson and his fiancé Julia are unshakeable pacifists during World War II. Tom volunteers to become a Red Cross medic, but in the horrific jungle war in Burma, he betrays his vow never to kill. Down and out in the dive bars of Calcutta, Tom meets a charismatic Indian doctor and spiritual teacher who offers him a unique path to redemption through service to sick and the hungry during the Great Famine of Bengal in 1943. As he begins to walk that path, Julia arrives to try to bring him back to The States.