A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, placed in a setting inspired by nineteenth-century Japan, in which exiled royals--including a duke's daughter disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.