Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote

1. Weltkrieg, 1915: Die Entente-Mächte wollen die türkische Halbinsel Gallipoli besetzen, um von hier aus Konstantinopel zu erobern. Eine unerfahrene Garnison australischer und neuseeländischer Freiwilliger soll mit einer Landungsoffensive die Entscheidung bringen. Mit dabei sind die Kriegsberichterstatter Charles Bean (Joel Jackson), Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (Hugh Dancy), Philipp Schuler (Sam Worthington) und Keith Murdoch(Ewan Leslie). Ihnen wird bald klar, dass die Wahrheit das erste Opfer dieser brutalen Schlacht ist.