This dramatisation of the 48 hours lead up to the conflict of the Somme River in 1916 underscore the acrimonious loss of artlessness of a grouping of ideal immature men, include 17-year-old truncheon Macfarlane who’s enlist in order to be with his aged blood brother, Eddie. But Eddie’s send place after be injure, leave his inexperienced person blood brother behind to confront the slow, inevitable countdown to the bloody slaughter in British military history.