FRONT gives an impression of life on both sides of this front line: with accounts in German, French, Dutch and English. You hear and see the young soldier Paul Bäumer, who had volunteered for the German army together with his classmates. And the experienced NCO Katczinsky, a forty-year-old Landwehrmann with a refined sense of good food. On the other side, in the Belgian army, there is Emiel Seghers, the farmer’s son, who hopes to meet up with his older brothers at the front and who writes letters to his sister Marie. And Lieutenant De Wit, a tormented character who has been postponing his leave for months because he once caught his wife with another man. 

These are a few of the characters who, each in their own way, try to cope with the horrors of war while fully aware that each day may be their last. This is how personal stories become entangled with military strategy.