A devastating story of war and a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of German schoolboys, idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism, set off to fight in the "glorious" war. When Paul (Richard Thomas) shoots a Frenchman and watches him die, he realizes the futility of the war. Wounded, he returns home to a different world, place where he cannot fit in. Sent back into battle, he meets destiny on a day when the German High Command Communigus states simply: All quiet on the Western Front.