A German soldier named Augustus is sent into battle in the American trenches, but when an artillery barrage knocks him unconscious, he wakes up in a new land. The new inhabitants see him not as a soldier, but instead as a filthy animal, a nuisance, an unneeded burden. Someone is already after him in this new world, and his fear takes over. What is he to do in this time of stress where he can trust very few?

[The original plan for this story was 12 chapters, but that feels impossible now. Instead, there will be side chapters that tell what happened in between the main chapters, to help fill inconsistencies and gaps in the plot. New plan is for 6 chapters.]