La France

During the First World War Camille Sylvie Testud a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front receives a short letter of breakup from him Distraught she decides to go to join him but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble But theres something a bit odd about these stragglers and its not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity