•They meet in a very troubled war zone. Alice is a soldier, Shari is a victim. She lost her husband but she tries to keep it up, taking care of her daighter and helping other people in need. She lives in a hut with a lot of other people like her, giving shelter to refugees and injuried people regardless of their side. She hates war and she firmly believes that they should find another way.
•Alice is young and sure that she’s serving her country, that this is a good thing to do, that war is necessary and that her enemy is in front of her, that it is in the other soldiers. But during a mission, one of her companions gets shoot near where Shari lives, and they have to look for shelter there.
•Shari doesn’t let Alice ad the other soldiers bring weapons inside; Alice makes fun of her saying she’s a stupid pacifist, but she doesn’t give up, and, in the end, Alice does what Shari wanted.
•During the time they spend there, Alice tries to cheer everyone up with her jokes, and Shari admires her strenght, her youth, her fierce and free spirit, her self-confidence.
•Alice, on the other side, appreciates Shari’s determinations, the courage she needs to be so kind, so good to who’s less lucky than her. She watches Shari doing what she does, and slowly she realizes that the true way to do something important is not fighting in the war, but helping people.
•When Alice’s fellows soldier dies and the other ones come back to the army, she doesn’t. She stays with Shari and helps her with what she does.
•They get married when war ends.
