Children of the night.What mu-u-u-sic they make.When he follows Dracula up through the unbroken spider web that spans the width of the staircase, he must use his cane to cut his way through.At the Plaza, he meets his business associates for drinks in the Oak Room Bar (under he Everett Shinn murals).The content of the film can be divided into four distinct parts:the pre-war education of schoolboys, and the enlistment of the young German recruitsthe soldiers"" arrival at the front of World War Ithe experiences of the cruelties and horrors of war in trench warfarethe hero""s homecoming, return to the front, and ultimate deathThe film includes a series of vignettes and scenes hat portray the senselessness and futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment.Before hey part, Fen begs Tom to let her come along so she won""t be deserted: "I know you have work to do, Tom, but I want to be part of it." With one look at his hypnotic stare, she is placed in a trance while he slowly bends down toward her neck.