Silent Cries is a 1993 television film adaptation, directed by Anthony Page, of Guests of the Emperor by Janice Young Brooks.
[1][2] This film is a dramatization of the Japanese occupation of Singapore, specifically the imprisonment of a large group of American, European and Australian women and children.
Hazel flees to the nearby restroom in hopes of secluding some jewelry and encounters a woman named Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Sutherland in one of the stalls, shredding the pages of her passport.
Hazel remembers seeing her in the airport restroom and immediately walks forward to Peggy, pretending to know her and to brush off the other woman.
Other women are introduced to the story as they are faced with incredibly difficult living conditions, forced labor and scarce food supply, compounded by a maniacal camp leader, Saigo.