This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau) who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison son of director Norman Jewison.