
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.

as Erna Jensen

as Feldwebel Meier

as Anton Seiersen

as Julius Rasmussen

as Max Petersen

as Kalle Jensen

as Mathias Hansen

as Christian Poulsen

as Fritz Müller

as French Camp Commander

as Train Conductor

as German Interpreter

as Whispering Soldier

as Older Woman Bramstrup

as Retiring Feldwebel

as Lieutenant Colonel

as Retiring Feldwebel (voice)

as Lieutenant Colonel (voice)

as German Soldier (uncredited)