The Manchuria Pioneering Youth Voluntary Army sent Japanese youths in their teens to Manchuria during the Second World War. Impoverished farming children thus headed off to the Chinese mainland with dreams of becoming landowners. This documentary revisits the wartime experiences of teenage volunteers on the colonial front lines, largely through their own eyes as now-elderly visitors. From the personal accounts of survivors and other records, we hear a hitherto untold story, and confront some difficult questions. What do such experiences mean for them now, after 64 years? And what is the purpose of war?