It follows four American soldiers set out on the grueling ascent of an Italian mountainside in the closing days of WWII, haunted by their evil sergeant’s cold-blooded murder of a young woman and with an old Italian man of uncertain loyalties as their guide. 　　 　　电影叙述四名美国士兵在二战最终几天，在意大利山腰的艰苦攀登中，被一名凶恶冷血的军官捕获，后来得到一位毅力不明的忠心耿耿的白叟作为他们的引路人。