No Bet­ter Friend is about the incred­i­ble bond formed between Judy, an Eng­lish point­er, and Frank Williams, an RAF tech­ni­cian in a Japan­ese POW camp dur­ing World War II. Judy sur­vived sev­er­al near-death expe­ri­ences — the ship she was on twice sunk by ene­my fire. Her abil­i­ty to endure the worst of war and cap­tiv­i­ty was a bea­con for the oth­er pris­on­ers, tasked with build­ing a ​“death rail­way” across Suma­tra, to find a way to per­se­vere despite the hor­rif­ic con­di­tions in which they worked. Frank helped keep his dog alive by shar­ing his lim­it­ed food and by using an elab­o­rate sys­tem of sig­nals to warn her when dan­ger approached. Upon their lib­er­a­tion from the camps, Frank and Judy returned to Britain as nation­al heroes. The faith evinced by man and dog that bet­ter days were ahead, no mat­ter how bleak their cir­cum­stances, evoked the best tra­di­tions of Judaism.