Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.
November 11, 1918, Germany capitulates. The armistice is signed. In the days that follows, the General Staff send a letter: France must honor the memory of its soldiers by naming an unknown soldier. In an infantry regiment based in the Somme, Corporal Solal and the soldiers Malard, Klein, and Maestracci, are appointed to scour the battlefields in search of the ideal corpse.
Cut off the world, Ferdinand lives in a small village with his family. Since the death of his mother, Ferdinand has been stuck in a total silence. On a midsummer day, he decides to end it all up.
