Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Jonathan Pryce
as Capt. William Rivers
James Wilby
as 2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon
Jonny Lee Miller
as 2nd Lt. Billy Prior
Stuart Bunce
as 2nd Lt. Wilfred Owen
Tanya Allen
as Sarah Lumb
Dougray Scott
as Capt. Robert Graves
David Hayman
as Maj. Bryce
John Neville
as Dr. Yealland
Paul Young
as Dr. Brock
Alastair Galbraith
as Capt. Campbell
Eileen Nicholas
as Miss Crowe
Julian Fellowes
as Timmons