Borimir Baur is a farmer living in ealry 1900s Sarajveo Bosnia. He is a hardworking man of mixed enthic backgrounds and a nationalist, deeply aganist the Empire and royalty. He has a rivalary with a young noblewomen going to a boarding school in the city named Catherine von Rosenberg. They start off as enemies, agruing about the politics of the day, and viewing one another as either inferior, or privileged. However, their more humain sides begin to show, and the two start a friendship, which leads to a romantic interest. Just as they are becoming close, Franz Ferdinand is assassignated in Sarajevo, causing WW1. Borimir is sent to the eastern front, and Catherine and her family flee to Salzburg. From there is is about a journey for the two to reunite, seeing the horrors of the First World War, and the presectives that each side shows.