During Christmas 1914 officers on the frontline decide to have informal truce for the time of holiday. What started as gentleman’s agreement ended up in most extraordinary event of World War 1.

During First World War the fate crosses paths of two officers, Frenchman Captain de Boeldieu and German von Rauffenstein, they meet in two different places, in different circumstances, but both try to aspire to their aristocratic morality in the times of war.