It is 1943, and the army--ravaged and demoralised--is retreating from the Russian front. In the middle of the insanity, conflict brews between your aristocratic yet eventually pusillanimous the courageous Corporal Steiner and Captain Stransky. Stransky may be the just person who thinks that the next Reich is vastly more advanced than the Russian army. Within his pompous persona establishes in order he can return to Berlin a hero, a coward who longs for the Iron Cross. Steiner, on the other hand is doubtful, defiantly nonconformist and more focused on the protection of their men rather than the horde of decorations wanted to him with his own superiors.