This film is based on correspondence written by Victorian teacher Percival Langford, a lance corporal who served in the 4th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt and Gallipoli. The film features extracts taken from a letter Percival wrote to his students at University High School, describing conditions in the trenches at Gallipoli and the brief armistice that took place between the Australian and Turkish forces on 24 May 1915, in order to bury their dead.