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A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Mud and terror define the existence of these infantrymen as they cycle between the deafening artillery of the trenches and fleeting moments of peace in a nearby village. The sudden contrast of a soldier's leave against the relentless carnage of the front lines exposes the fragility of human connection during wartime.

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