由著名剧作家多尔顿·特朗博执导，讲述第一次世界大战期间，美国青年强尼出征欧洲战场受重伤，他的脸部，四肢都被炮弹炸坏了。而他只有代号“407”。但他还有清楚的意识，完整的记忆力，他被送入后方的陆军医院。他在病床上想着他的爱人、双亲、妹妹们。新来的护士是一个温柔的女性，强尼与她交谈则用头敲枕头，发出电报似的信号。但随着护士的离去，一切希望都没有的407躺在黑暗里心里叫着“我不能这样活下去”……

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.