In the early months of World War I, Lieutenant Samuel Harding serves aboard the HMS Dreadnought, a British battleship patrolling the North Sea. When a German cruiser attacks, Samuel faces his first real battle, but beneath the surface of the war, whispers of espionage and betrayal threaten to tear his crew apart. As Samuel confronts the horrors of battle and the possibility of spies among his ranks, he must decide whether to trust those around him or risk everything to expose the truth.