A young subaltern, fresh from public school and officer training in England, arrives at a frontline trench dugout on the Western Front.

Courageously performing his duties in spite of his fear he is mortally wounded and passes away - ending his life's journey long before his time is due.

The waste of noble, trusting and vibrant young lives poignantly manifest in this R. C. Sherriff masterpiece rendering the tragic losses confrontingly real for audiences left silently contemplating the madness and futility of war at the close of one performance after another.