August 1914. Europe has mobilised. The Imperial German Army has executed its Schlieffen Plan, has ploughed through Belgium, and is now deep in France. The British Expeditionary Force is seeing its first action against the Germans. Skirmishes in open countryside are common, and both sides are still learning how a modern war could and should be fought. Two soldiers, one English, one German, both with lives and lovers at home they would rather not have left, find themselves facing each other, alone. Alone, except for the French girl, Françoise…
as Françoise
as Arthur
as Heinrich
as Molly
as Sarah
as Anna
as Captain Mills
as Company Sergeant Major Freeman
as Leutnant Ziegler
as Johan
as Chambers (The Postman)
as Madame Dubois
