根据尼科·沃克的同名小说改编，故事涉及创伤后应激障碍，故事讲述一个来自富裕家庭的男子本拥有美好生活，此后他远离家乡，到伊拉克成为一名军医，而当他返回家乡后便患上了创伤后应激障碍，此后他吸毒、负债累累，他更是先后抢劫了11家银行。

　　A group of British tunnelers dig underneath no man's land, from the Allied trenches to the German trenches, and set bombs under the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.