Thirty-five-year-old Carla Bem is an ordinary secretary in a real estate office. Her whole life consists of daily routine work and loneliness at home. In addition, Carla is very hard of hearing. She wears a hearing aid and can read lips. Therefore, she gladly accepts the offer to be assisted by a trainee, 25-year-old Paul, who has recently been released from prison.

Late fall of 1944. The last days of the Japanese occupation in the Philippines. The turf war has already been lost, the high command has been evacuated, and the infantry is left to die. Without provisions, medicine or ammunition, under Allied bombs and bullets from local guerrillas. Private Tamura was stranded on Leyte Island due to his ailment and gradually became "the man who isn't there." He was kicked out of the hospital back to the trenches to avoid wasting pills.