A brilliant mathematician, John Nash, receives an offer to work with the secret services in tracking messages encrypted in the newspapers. His task absorbs him so completely that he does not even notice his deteriorating health.
The travelling acting troupe arrives to a town in which young boy is just being buried and a woman is about to be executed for killing him. But not everything is what it looks like in this story.
In 1918 Germans are preparing their final do-or-die push in the western front. Young British officer joins his unit just few days before offensive is about to start and tries to adapt to life in trenches.