In Rangoon, the capital of Burma, in 1947, General Aung San, who negotiated his country's independence with the British, was assassinated. In Oxford, in 1998, Michael Aris prepared to die from the cancer eating away at him. He hadn't seen his wife, Suu Kyi, General Aung San's daughter, for three years. She couldn't visit him. She knew the ruling junta in Burma wouldn't let her return.
