A young Flemish peasant experiences the brutal side of war after his father has left to fight at the battle front of the Yser, his mother has been executed by German soldiers and his grandfather has been sent to an internment camp. He decides to take up arms and joins the Belgian army to avenge his mother’s death…

An army pilot is visiting the home of another army pilot in a neighboring country, and falling in love with his sister, when war breaks out.