November 1918. A grueling war that took hundreds of thousands of lives from France ended in a victory, the sweetness of which the exhausted army cannot even comprehend. And it was at this moment, when the last explosions died down and the guns fell silent, that several French officers would have to take on their most terrible, most important battle. In this battle, baseness and greatness, vanity and courage, valor and honor, stupidity and expediency will collide, and no one will be able to leave the battlefield without losses.