Based on the autiobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith, Three Cam Home stars Cludette Colbert as Mrs. Keith. Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue Hayakawa), Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation, and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Suga helpless to intervene lest he incur the warth of his superiors.

During World War II, American author Agnes Newton Keith and her British husband were arrested and imprisoned in a Japanese prisoner camp. The account of their experiences is chilling and intense.