The plot: Amy (Oona Laurence), a
student of a Virginian girls school during the American Civil War, comes across
a wounded Union soldier in the woods surrounding the school. Amy brings the
soldier, named Corporal McBurney (Colin Farrell), to the school where the
headmistress Martha (Nicole Kidman) agrees to bring him in and get him better.
However, with Confederate soldiers frequently marching outside their gates, and
the girls at the school not being sure how much they can trust the Corporal,
they may have to come to a difficult decision about what to do with him.
