The deep suffering of Australia's wartime prisoners has been channelled into music — an hours-long "prayer for the dead" — to help a handful of surviving veterans and their families heal.
More than 30,000 Australians became prisoners of war (POWs) during World War II. Most were imprisoned in harsh camps in Japanese-occupied territories.
Now, 80 years after the fall of Singapore and the start of the construction of the Thai-Burma Railway — a brutal endeavour in which many prisoners died — musicians have drawn on accounts shared by POWs and their relatives to create a personal work of remembrance.
