A report on social and economic conditions in the five nations of southern Asia. The film portrays the surge of independence and determination to work out their own future which has permeated every phase of national life for this one-fourth of the world’s population, and which is bringing advances in health and living standards. The assistance of the United Nations in providing the knowledge and the plans with which to develop education, social welfare, agriculture and industry is shown.
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood.
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life.
While Ludovic Dubois, a young summer camp monitor in Saint-Benoît, entertains the children by playing Robin Hood, the lord's niece is kidnapped by her uncle, in the castle next door.
Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.
