The men hit rock bottom. Jealously fighting for a girl who joined the bordello out of infatuation for him, Guillaume looses his prospect to marry Sarah after the war and instantly his driver job, so he's posted on the front, where he witnesses a rare survivor being shot for 'desertion'. Vincent is jailed after a drunk brawl, but accepts a last shot at officer training in France when Marie, whose nursing dream proves rather nightmarish in the field, seduces his commander. Hans-Peter wisely refuses to forge a 'replica' for Philippe's 'lost' gynecology diploma, the non-existence of which is discovered, so he's forced to resign his anatomy chair, but his neglected practice is no longer profitable.
—KGF Vissers