It's 1916 as two young men from opposite sides of the Great War rush into an entanglement that will take a half century to unfold.

It is November 11, 1968, fifty years to the day since the armistice of the Great War.. The seventy year old German diplomat Jurgen Stern is in Ottawa, Canada on a special assignment. He rescues a portfolio mistakenly left behind in his hotel lobby by a man near his own age. Inside are drawings that are obviously from a soldier's perspective of WW1. One of the sketches is so intriguing he is compelled to find this man and learn the truth about it.