In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long-awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed. While hopelessly searching for his parents, he meets lovely Elizabeth Kruse, daughter of a political prisoner; together they try to wrest sanity and survival from a world full of hatred.—Rod Crawford
On the Russian front in 1944, German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.