Wooden Crosses

In 1914, young and patriotic student Gilbert Demachy joins the French army to defend his country, marking the beginning of an unrelenting and devastating experience in the trenches of Champagne. The once-vibrant world of war gives way to a brutal reality as more and more wooden crosses are erected for this cannon fodder, foreshadowing the unimaginable horrors that await Demachy and his comrades.