<p>Set in Serbia during the First World War, the lives of a brave soldier and a patriotic medical orderly interweave.<br><br>Stefan is brutalised by war atrocities but torn by loyalty to his men. Ellen buries the memory of women's rotting corpses piled in a church.<br><br>When Serbia is occupied during 1915, the army, 30,000 of its cadets, and hundreds of its people evacuate in a mass exodus to Corfu.<br><br>In the worst Balkan winter in living m...