Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.
바그다드에서 다마스커스까지 카라반을 따라 여행하던 사람들. 여행단은 한 오아시스 근처에서 '재칼' 일당의 습격을 받게 되고, 미국 소년 데이빗과 영국 소녀 새라를 제외한 전원이 피살된다. 재칼이 새라를 자신의 하렘으로 데려 가려 하자, 둘은 도망쳐 사막 한가운데 펼쳐진 아름다운 오아시스에 머물게 된다. 그곳에서 둘만의 시간을 가지며 서로에게 사랑을 느끼고 성에 눈뜨게 되지만, 재칼은 새라에 대한 추적을 멈추지 않는데...
