Movie Description:
Dr. William Rivers is a psychiatrist in a moral straightjacket. At a respected Scottish asylum, he heals shell-shocked soldiers...so he canreluctantly send them back to the unspeakable carnage of the European trenches. Then he encounters an intriguingly different kind of patient.Siegfried is a brilliant, courageous warhero sent to the asylumfor publishing an outspoken anti-war pamphlet. As Rivers and Siegfried each struggle tocope with memories of the war`snight- marish brutality, the line between patient and doctor begins to blur. Now the fight for sanity in the midst of aninsane conflict becomes the most desperate life-and-death battle of all.