The movie get down with a voiceover describe the trench warfare state of affairs of universe War I up to 1916. In a château, full general George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), a fellow member of the Gallic full general Staff, ask his subsidiary, the ambitious full general Mireau (Saint George Macready), to direct his division on a suicide missionary post to take a well-defended German place name the “formicary.”