Lucius, a young Viennese medical student, enlists, hoping to serve at a field hospital in the first World War. But he finds a freezing outpost the other doctors have fled. A single nurse remains, and Lucius has never lifted a scalpel. When an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change lives forever.
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