Английски език
The Union corporal having served out the time of his muster has become so personally devastated by the effects of his participation in five major battles in thirteen months; he makes the decision to leave the war for whatever new life he may find in the west. While scavenging the now deserted, ghostly battlefield for supplies for his trip, he encounters a severely wounded Confederate Officer. Resisting his months of training to kill this enemy and move on, he finally agrees to bind up the Confederate's wounds as they make an uneasy pact to help each other; the Yankee to his imagined new life out west away from the war and the Confederate to return to his home in Texas. During their nine month trip west, as they slowly begin to grow beyond their hatred and suspicion of each other, they are confronted by both Confederate and Union patrols, cross the flooded Mississippi River at night on a raft
