The year is 1919 and Charlie Wilcox has returned home to Brigus, Newfoundland, battle weary and fatigued from The Great War. Leaving as a boy of fourteen and returning at seventeen, Charlie has left his childhood behind on the battlefields. Although his homecoming is all he could have hoped for, he is burdened by a terrible secret, one that will inflict more grief on his village, which has already suffered so much.