When conscripted in November 1917, young Jack Carrick was willing to serve his country but reluctant to kill. Therefore, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and focussed on saving lives instead of taking them.

However, Jack’s cowardly N.C.O., Corporal Fred Allingham, was determined to save only one life – his own. As the Great War raged on Allingham saw Jack as a threat to his secret agenda – even more of a threat than the Germans who dealt death in the trenches and from the sky above…