The Great War, later called World War I, brought an end to the Belle Epoque. The Moloch of war is insatiable, he demands new victims, new forces, new technology; battles take place not only on the ground, but also in the air, and although winged machines were invented quite recently and are far from perfect, more and more real aces are appearing among the pilots. Among them is young Michael Courtney, who masterfully controls his fighter. One day his military luck leaves him, and he miraculously survives, but it is this incident that gives him a happy meeting with the charming Frenchwoman Santen. But a miracle rarely happens twice. Michael dies in a dogfight on the day his wedding is scheduled... Santen must learn to live again. She leaves the destroyed house and goes on a Red Cross ship to South Africa, the homeland of her deceased fiancé, not knowing that she will not set foot on the paradise earth so colorfully described by Michael, but on a burning shore, the edge of the desert, where she has to fight at every step for his life...Continuation of the epic about the indomitable Courtney, whose motto is: “I will endure.” Based on the novel, the film “The Scorched Coast” was shot in 1991 (Italy, France, Germany). Directed by Jeannot Schwartz, co-written by Wilbur Smith, with Marina Vladi in a supporting role.