Hoping to get sent home from Vietnam, pacifist GI Jay Peckfogle gets an insult tattooed on his saluting hand. This only earns him a transfer to Army Limbo. There he is assigned to write condolence letters to the families of GIs who have been killed in the war. But his quiet, dull life in a bunker is interrupted by a street gangster named Crocodile. Peckfogle’s pacifist beliefs are challenged when Crocodile threatens his girlfriend.