This black comedy-drama war film follows Ernest McClellan, a young black barber from Waco, Texas, who at the beginning of WW2 gets titillated by the idea of joining the Marine Corps to defend his country. However, after reaching his all-black company in the boot camp, Ernest will find out he has to fight two wars: the world conflict that will culminate in the bloody Battle of Iwo Jima and the racial conflict driven by prejudice by white officers and fellow soldiers towards their black counterparts.
