Top Cast
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Oliver Sebastian
Murray
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Angela Elise Munnoch
The Mother
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Michael Sturch
Jack
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George Connal
The Corporal
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Bobby Wilson
Soldier
Overview
At the end of the Great War, a soldier burdened with informing a mother of her son's death, faces an impossible decision... Tell her a noble lie, or the horrible truth?
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