A documentary film about a forgotten attack during an epic battle.

On July 1st, 1916, as the sun set on the Western Front, nearly 60,000 men of the British Forces lay dead and dying. While much has been depicted of the Battle of the Somme's primary offensive, little is known about the attack on Gommecourt— a tiny hamlet at the westernmost point of that Western Front.

There, two divisions mounted what they believed was a diversionary attack designed to attract German artillery and infantry reserves away from the main offensive to the south. Unbeknownst to the British Army, the Germans had spent eighteen months making Gommecourt the most heavily defended point on the entire Front. At 7:30 that summer morning, the men of the 56th Division stepped onto No Man's Land to face massed machine guns and artillery of fortified German defenders they never saw coming.

This is the story of a diversionary attack that became a death trap, told through the voices of the few who survived and those who didn't.