In November 1918, two soldiers–a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant–start a memorial con. But in Roaring Twenties France, their adventures soon turn dangerous.  A few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard’s life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims’ corpses, Albert and Edouard mount a monumental scam using the bereaved families’ commemoration and a nation’s hero worship.