During the Autumn of 1854, the British Government dispatched Florence Nightingale and a large party of volunteer nurses to help tend the wounded from the vicious battles raging in the Crimean War. Urgent plans were created to speed them to the Scutari field hospital in Constantinople. With soldiers being in short supply due to the current war effort, ten men of the Queen's Edinburgh Militia were ordered to meet the almost all female party at Marseille and ensure their safe arrival. The unexpected adventures and eventual brutality used as the men experience the punishing reality of war would change them forever as, in their desperate fight for survival, they commit savage acts of cruelty they would never have believed they were capable of. They may have left Scotland for the Crimea to save lives – but who will save their own souls?
