故事发生在第一次世界大战期间,英国联军和德军之间的战况日渐白热化,每天都有无数的士兵们含恨死去,年仅十六岁的莎士比亚(杰米·贝尔 Jamie Bell 饰)亦参与了这场战争,战场上伤痕累累的惨状给他的心灵蒙上了厚厚的阴影。 某日,莎士比亚和一干战友们正在进行一项突袭任务,就在大家凝神鼻息偷偷前进之时,一股不知从何而来的神秘烟雾将他们包围。之后,一行人来到了德军的战壕内,然而这里了无生气,有的只是一具具死相及其恐怖的尸体。这里究竟发生了什么?莎士比亚所在的连队继续前进,诡异的事情不断发生,连队中亦不断的有人丧命,莎士比亚隐约觉得,在前方等待着他们的正是地狱的入口。In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night. They capture a German soldier that advises that evil is in the trench, forcing the soldiers to kill each other, and asks them to leave the place. Only the private Charlie Shakespeare listens and helps the prisoner, while a supernatural force scares and makes the soldiers insane.