In a remote pocket of the prairie, members of a secretive farm community make a grisly discovery: stillborn calves with barbed wire impossibly threaded through their bodies. It's a sign that a generations-old pact between the community and a powerful presence in the very soil itself is about to be broken by an outsider, and the consequences will be horrifying.

December, 1916. The Western Front. A disillusioned soldier, tasked with guarding British deserters on death row, disobeys his superiors to save his latest charge's life at the eleventh hour. Based on a true story.