SCARS

After 60 years, the outward scars of the battles of the Great War are healing, but they are still there — touched off by the place names, that are still a litany of courage, comradeship and death.

Scars visits those places to find the wound of the Great War gently festering, it finds tons of scrap still harvested from the fields of the Somme. It visits the macabre Hill 62 museum at Ypres, and finds, at Verdun, a factory making chocolate bombs.

The film captures the stories of 3 veterans, one of them blinded in 1915. Their stories counterpoint the vast panorama of the battlefield — the cemeteries, the impersonality of the Great War machine — with tales that bring the war close.