Guy looks off screen in silent happiness while biting his finger

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

A man, relaxing and bored, spots a passerby in the distance.