Left for dead after the first clash, wounded and lost in the forest between two armies, Wilhelm stumbles across an Austrian soldier, an enemy built like a bull, wounded like him and just as lost. Albert could have killed him. Instead he chooses to stay.
Through a night by the fire and a long walk along a river, the two men go from wary enemies to something neither of them dared to name. But Wilhelm is a Bohemian, Albert is an Austrian, and the war between their peoples leaves no room for a love like theirs.
When Wilhelm runs, he thinks he is saving himself. He has no idea what it will cost.
A short, haunting wartime romance about courage, regret, and the love we find in the place we least expect it, and the price of coming too late.