War melodrama set in contemporary Belgium. An American brigadier general (
Burr Jerger) living in Belgium is awaiting trial for atrocities committed in Vietnam. Flashbacks show him murdering his adulterous wife. He does the same to his daughter when he catches her with his orderly. Though much of the film is set in Vietnam, it is not as much an anti-war film as a study of the psychotic general who thrives on violence and war. The story focuses on a veteran (the General) who served the military during WWII, Vietnam and the Korean War. He has quite a few alarming conceptions about warfare ("politics are the extension of war", "Civilians are as much the enemy as men in uniform"...) When he returns to his estate in Antwerp, he continues to live under the impression of being in command of his troops and hikes into the nearby woods fully armored.
—Anonymous