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.

Jonathan Pryce
as Capt. William Rivers

James Wilby
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

Jonny Lee Miller
as 2nd Lt. Billy Prior

Stuart Bunce
as 2nd Lt. Wilfred Owen

Tanya Allen
as Sarah Lumb

Dougray Scott
as Capt. Robert Graves

David Hayman
as Maj. Bryce

John Neville
as Dr. Yealland

Paul Young
as Dr. Brock

Alastair Galbraith
as Capt. Campbell