The sudden roar of powerful Endekker engines alerted Jonathan, but he was too late. The Fokker was flying straight at them, its machine gun hammering viciously through the revolving propellers. WW1 enfolds Jonathan and his wife Justine, in all of its brutality when they are separated by Jonathan's unexplained disappearance behind enemy lines. Justine, unable to remain inactive in her grief,travels to France to drive an ambulance and care for the wounded in his name. while still hoping for his survival. Interwoven with the dramatic story of their adventures, we endure, with Daniel, their family friend, the life of an ordinary soldier. One of a million young men who sign up to do the right thing. We experience the horror of the trenches...the hell of gas, machine gun, shell and grenade warfare and finally the carnage of the ill fated battle of Loos, 1915.