France, March 1918. Raleigh, a naive and idealistic young officer, arrives at the Western Front and asks to be posted to the company of his old school friend Captain Stanhope. He joins a trench full of fear, as the men await their grim fate while trying to cope with the daily pressures of the war. Adaptation of the play by RC Sherriff, starring Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones and Stephen Graham