 With the end of World War II in sight, Asia looks forward to the day when they can fulfill their own hopes for a better future in a postwar world.Typical of the NFB's wartime series of propaganda short films, "When Asia Speaks" was a compilation documentary that relied heavily on stock footage, including "enemy footage".A large proportion of the film was composed on newsreel material from the inter-war period, continuing to foster the outmoded image of "romance, glamour and intrigue" that characterized the westerner's perception of the East.