A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.

• Louis Wolheim
• Lew Ayres
• John Wray
• Arnold Lucy
• Ben Alexander
• Scott Kolk
• Owen Davis Jr.
• Walter Rogers
• William Bakewell
• Russell Gleason