My Painful Duty

1919.
Richard Hansen returns home from the war carrying an overwhelming guilt. Traumatised by his experiences, he seeks redemption by finding peace for the families of those he failed to save in war. But for him the path to peace is less clear.

'I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear.'
'Inferno', Dante Alighieri

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