On his seventeenth birthday NSW farm boy, Callan McAlister joins AIF and is swept away to war.
He sees action in the Sinai Desert, Gallipoli, Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and the Western Front all before his twentieth birthday.
Callan falls in love with a lovely English beauty, Ivy Brown, but their path to happiness is threatened by aristocratic prejudice and Callan’s chances of surviving the bloodshed.