In early 1905, journalism was a place for mockery and lies in the United States. Wanting to conduct real journalism, a group of friends travel to Asia to report the ongoing conflict in Manchuria, where the Empires of Russia and Japan had been at war for over a year. They are met with both Japanese and Russian forces, while also traveling with a Manchurian woman. Soon, they will all be in the center of the largest land battle of the entire war.