A young boy joins his father at a gathering with three other immigrant men. The reunion between old friends takes a dark turn when one of the men fails to make due during the Great Depression.

When a young man signs up to fight in an intergalactic war in exchange for his citizenship, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the killing technology they’ve given him to murder the enemy.

The relationship between the Italians and the French run thin before and after the armistice, and two men (one Italian and one British) living in France try to understand where their place in the world is.