Based on true events, a young Texan endures a grueling tour of duty during WWII, battling his way through tropical jungles in the Pacific theater of the conflict, and returns home to marry his sweetheart.

SYNOPSIS:

Horace “Red” Smith meets Juliette Hamilton at a community baseball game in 1940. Red is 19 and Juliette is 13. The Hamilton and Smith families know each other in the farm belt of Hopkins County, Texas. The families are shocked by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Red is drafted into the Army in 1942 and forms a close bond with his three companions: Pete, Kenny and Nobel. The four of them are deployed to Hawaii and Australia before finally seeing combat in the campaign to liberate the Philippines. They encounter fierce resistance for twelve grueling days along Breakneck Ridge on Leyte. Kenny suffers an arm wound, which becomes infected, forcing an amputation and getting him sent home. The three others adopt a young soldier named Tim into their little group. More islands and more fights follow, with the untamed Japanese bastion of Mindanao being the last and worst. During a deadly confrontation in a claustrophobic hemp field, Pete is mortally wounded, and Nobel is crippled, leaving Red and Tim as the last two standing. They survive to see the end of the war and return home to their families. After three years of yearning, Red is able to court and marry his sweetheart Juliette. They spend the next two years building a life together as they follow the movement of agriculture west into Arizona, enjoying their journey in pursuit of their own paradise. The screenplay has been written in five fifty-minute episodes.