Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Hana In looks after critically burned man final days of Italian Campaign of World War II, Fact2: Sikh sapper in British Army has love affair with Hana before leaving for Florence, Fact3: Hungarian cartographer Count Laszlo de Almasy was mapping Sahara as part of Royal Geographical Society archeological and surveying expedition in Egypt and Libya with Englishman Peter Madox and others, Fact4: expedition is joined by British couple, Fact5: Madox leaves Tiger Moth plane before intended return to Britain
Output (English): In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a FrenchCanadian nurse working and living in a bombedout Italian monastery, looks after a critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name. They are joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army who defuses bombs and has a love affair with Hana before leaving for Florence, and David Caravaggio, a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative who was questioned by Germans and has had his thumbs cut off during a German interrogation. Caravaggio questions the patient, who gradually reveals his past. The patient tells Hana and Caravaggio that, in the late 1930s, he was exploring the desert of Libya. He is revealed to be Hungarian cartographer Count Laszlo de Almasy, who was mapping the Sahara as part of a Royal Geographical Society archeological and surveying expedition in Egypt and Libya with Englishman Peter Madox and others. Their expedition is joined by a British couple, Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton. Almasy falls in love with Katharine and writes about her in his book which Katharine reads. The two thereafter begin an affair which eventually Katharine ends. Almasy declares that he has found the Cave of Swimmers. An archaeological survey is conducted on it and the surrounding area until they are stopped due to the onset of the war. Madox leaves his Tiger Moth plane at Kufra oasis before his intended return to Britain. While Almasy is packing up their base camp, Geoffrey, in attempted murdersuicide after apparently deducing Almasy and Katharine were in an affair, deliberately crashes the plane, narrowly missing Almasy. Geoffrey is killed instantly and Katharine is seriously injured. Almasy carries her to the Cave of Swimmers, leaving her with provisions, and begins a threeday walk to get help. At Britishheld El Tag he attempts to explain the situation, but is detained as a possible German spy and transported on a train. He escapes from the train and trades the Geographical Society maps to the Germans for gasoline. He finds Madoxs Tiger Moth and flies back to the cave, but Katharine has died. As he flies himself and Katharines body away, they are shot down by German antiaircraft guns. Almasy is badly burned and is rescued by the Bedouin. After he has related the story, Almasy indicates to Hana that he wants a lethal dose of morphine; she complies and reads Katharines final journal entries to him as he dies. She and Caravaggio leave the monastery for Florence.