Despite persuasive evidence that U.S. Air Force pilot Charles Scharf died when his plane slammed into a Vietnamese mountainside, Barbara Scharf Lowerison remains convinced that her brother survived and is being held against his will in Asia. She has only fragmentary evidence to support her belief, like a fleeting glimpse of someone who might have been her brother in an old East German film about POWs, and a CIA report that lists him as a prisoner. "I know my brother's alive," she maintains.
Over the years, Lowerison, 57, has come to believe that her brother was captured and shipped to China....