A love story set in the British colony of Malaya, overshadowed by a dark family secret. Hamburg, 1898: When her dying adoptive father writes down a name with his last strength, Ella Kaltenbach suspects it might be the first clue about her true parentage. Is that the name of her biological father, and what do the years of payments from the British colony of Malaya mean? The young nurse decides to travel to the distant land in search of answers. The trail leads to the Foster's rubber plantation. There, Ella finds herself caught between the British colonial power and the Malay resistance, but she also encounters a great love. However, there is someone who will stop at nothing to keep the truth about Ella's roots forever hidden in the darkness of the rainforest.