The spell binding story of two lovers and two great dynasties; one British, the other Chinese, the society that separated them and the passion that bound them.TANAMERA sweeps from the steamy, British-ruled Malaya of the 1930s through the bloody days of the Japanese occupation, to the tumultuous birth of a nation. At its centre is John Dexter, heir to a fabulous financial empire, and Julie Soong, daughter of Singapore's riches and most powerful Chinese family. Their love was as forbidden as it was inevitable and the price they had to pay for it was beyond their wildest dreams...