In a violent, disastrous setting in which fragments of war news reports continuously run on TV screens, various historic-literary episodes succeed one another, in which mostly anonymous characters become the innocent victims of war and its devastating psychological effects. Occurrences from the Roman antiquity, the Yugoslav Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, and from Japan at the time of its capitulation in World War II criss-cross each other with short flashes of current events, bringing back the past to our present-day awareness.