A shell shocked veteran returns home to Canada where he is assigned to help the on-going recruitment drive needed to feed the war machine. As he recovers from his experiences he falls for a war nurse whose younger brother cannot enlist due to a medical condition. Desperate to serve his country David uses a fraudulent medical certificate & joins the army. Michael feels he has no option but to follow him back to the Western Front & protect him from harm. Both men are dispatched to the front line of Passchendaele
- a battle that became synonymous with the misery of the First World War & claimed over 600 000 casualties.