General Candy, who's visiting an English group in 1943, is a pioneer that does not always have the admiration of these men he is training and can be deemed out-of-touch using what's needed to win the war. Nevertheless, it wasn't always this way. Flashing back into his early career at the Boer War and World War I, a young officer whose entire life has been shaped by three women, also by a durable friendship with a German soldier is seen by us.