A tale of love, loss, betrayal, reminiscence, shell shock and heartbreak, set in the First World War.
Lieutenant Robert Stevenson has not returned home in the two years since he left for the Western Front in 1915. Since then he has lost his lover, his family, his sense of perspective on life and death, and any ability to empathise with anyone outside of his battalion. Now, returning to his isolated village for the first time, he struggles to come to terms with the changes in himself and in the girl he once loved, but no longer knows how to. Can he ever see some hope beyond the futility, and regain the love of his country that drove him to fight in the first place? Can he cope with the guilt he carries for all the men he could not save? And can he ever win back the love of the girl who is his only reason for continuing to live?