On a quiet rural farm, a deaf-mute boy wanders away while playing by the river. Chasing a rabbit into the forest, he stumbles upon a column of grotesquely wounded soldiers crawling toward the water. Mistaking the horror for a strange game, the boy leads them like an army commander—unaware of the devastation unfolding around him. As night falls, the river turns red, and the flames of war consume everything he knows.