The Glass Soldier is based on the true story of an Australian painter named Nelson Ferguson, who served in France as a field ambulance officer in WWI. This is an epic romance about a young Australian who falls in love with Maddie, an English girl, shortly before he is plunged into the horrors of the Somme. He returns to Australia with an injury that threatens to destroy his vision. But Maddie crosses the world to find him. Despite his blindness and his loyalty to a violent fellow soldier, Nelson and Maddie build a life together, filled with hope and light.