[2][3] The novel first appeared in 1959 in the pages of Weekly Women’s Magazine.

[1] With the Filipino resistance movement during the Second World War employed as the “background” of the novel, the focus of the narrative is Andres, a lawyer, and his two brothers.

The three brothers were tortured by the Japanese occupiers through the horizontal spread-eagle "crucifixion" method.

The brothers’ predicament echoed a similarity to “the Christ figure in the midst of temptation and at Calvary”.

This article about a World War II novel first published in the 1950s is a stub.