 Based upon a true story - in the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Vietnamese. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and a Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger s situation seems hopeless. With casualties mounting, can the six young Australian commanders and their men hold out until the relief force arrives?