A Band of Young Confederate soldiers escape Union captivity soon after the battle of Atlanta. These six young men head south, where they believe they can regroup and join up with another regiment. The 120 mile journey quickly becomes an unforeseen nightmare for the six - a journey that would teach them all a hard lesson of survival and compassion - a journey where they all hoped and prayed that they could simply live long enough to reach their destination - a small town on a Georgia river. They had no way of knowing that the city on the river was about to be burned to the ground.