Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Keywords: american-soldiers , baseball-vs-knife , casualty-of-war , ceasefire , children-in-wartime , front-line-warfare , korean-war-1950-53 , night-patrols , philosophical-depiction-of-war , platoon , violent-man , war-child , young-soldier