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'The Lives Before Us' follows Esther and Kitty who, facing Nazi persecution, flee to Shanghai. April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty - two very different women - are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai, they've heard is a haven and so they secure passage to the other side of the world. What they find is a city of extremes - weath, poverty, decadence and disease - and of deep political instability. Then the Japanese military enters the fray and violence mounts. The women are thrown together in the city's most desperate times...