Out of Options: Jesselton & Jarrod (2018)

Having agreed to rendez-vous at the "safe space" of their romantic youth -- a ramshackle barn on the abandoned outskirts of town -- Scots Lieutenant Jarrod weaves his way across hill, dale, and cornfield on a beeline for the farm. Having witnessed the almost total decimation of the regiment under his failed command, Jarrod is utterly shell-shocked -- as it was once known -- at the end of the battle's hostilities. His beloved -- a former schoolteacher and lover of literature -- Jesselton, is but a mere shadow of her self. She wanders aimlessly through the precarious forest -- now populated by stray snipers, partisans, and assorted hooligans dismayed by the result of the war. She barely manages to survive. Digging deep into the last reserves of her strength, Jesselton locates the barn, which she just succeeds in reaching. Having re-united within the protected boundaries of their secret idyll, they recount the truth about the course of the past half-dozen years.