奥斯曼中尉向一位美丽的女孩讲述一个故事,为了躲避自身所遭受的不公平对待,美国女护士只身前往即将成为一战战场的土耳其从事医疗工作,并在战争中爱上了被视为敌人的奥斯曼陆军中尉,在爱恨情仇中她必须做出自己的选择,一段美国护士与土耳其军官的爱情故事就此展开。A beautiful, strong-willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire - a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty to Jude and the mission's founder tested when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army. Now, with invading army forces at their doorstep, and the world about to plunge into all-out war, she must make a decision if she wants to be what other people want her to be, or to be herself.