About the title
Artie Crawford is a World War II veteran. Now an elderly man, he spends his days in a nursing home in Northern Ireland, lost in gloomy memories of his wartime past. After his wife's death, Artie decides to ignore the potential risk to his health and sets off on a solo journey to France to take part in a commemorative ceremony marking another anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. Seeking to pay tribute to his best friend, the elderly man visits the sites of past battles, confronting his own past along the way.