Three war stories, that takes place far from the frontline. The first two are staged during the Great War, one in the reckless summer of 1916, and the other in the dark woods of winter, when victory now seems a dellusion to a convalescent officer and his young cousin. The third narrative follows, for the time of summer dance nowadays, a couple of french soldiers marked by the violence of a faint foreign war nobody semms to care about.