For the film's opening act, some seamless post-Benjamin Button effects attach Evans's head on to another actor's scrawny body, and we learn that he's
a brave young patriot who's deemed too feeble to go to war.
Anna, a child no longer, turns to love and comfort in the form of Jan, a
brave patriot and architect of democracy, unaware that her beautiful and enigmatic cousin Zofia has already set her sights on the handsome
young fighter.