Between Home and Naples, on a mountain dominating town and valley, stood for four hundred years St. Benedict's Monastery - the most celebrated in Europe. War swept over Monte Cassino and completely demolished it. From the ruin comes a call to seven men; among them a Leicestershire lad, a Benedictine monk, a Pole, a Ghurka...Between them in England, America, Poland, France, Austria, India and Italy, they had experienced the vagaries of fortune, young love, high adventure, success and disappointment. Their story seemed to end abruptly and finally, like the great monastery above the town, which was wiped, out in the space of a few hours by a handful of nameless youths fulfilling their orders. But was that the end...?