A psychiatrist is in charge of healing traumatised soldiers during the First World War and returning them to the front. He questions his actions when he treats eminent poet Siegfried Sassoon, who is declared shell-shocked for making an anti-war declaration. Drama based on the novel by Pat Barker, starring Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce and Tanya Allen.

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.