A novella of a military story - Private David is desperate...without equipment, rifle, water, food, leadership, or his fellow soldiers, he is lost behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Normandy, on the eve of D-Day, June 6, 1944. A brand-new soldier, who swam out of a French lake after falling out of a plane shot down by enemy fire must survive long enough to find fellow friendly troops or anyone willing to help him to survive through the night.