The four-year conflict from 1914 to 1918 marks the first full-scale intercontinental participation in terms of troops in History. It is indeed why this conflict is aptly named the first World War. Through a play of alliances and the geopolitical situation of the time, we will find on both fronts (western and eastern) a contingency of conscripts then characterized as 'exotic', that is soldiers from afar. From 1914 and until the end of the war, men will die far away from home. Of these rarely mentioned 'displaced' soldiers, nothing remains but the squares they occupy in the cemeteries. It has to be said that the nations have held their end of the bargain well, and that these necropolis are for the most part impressing, original and well kept. Indians, Chinese and Russians amongst others came to die on the French/Belgian front. New Zealanders, Australians and Senegalese have on their end died on the eastern front in the Balkans. Through the unfolding of the battles of this war, this film will tell the incredible tale of those that died far from home.
