The adventures of a group of young men at a military training camp in the mountains. Drawn mainly from the country's most remote provinces, the conscripts must cope with the punishing routine and harsh discipline designed to transform them from callow youths into soldiers. Two of the young men become friends by sharing the tape recorder one of them has smuggled into boot camp, listening to recorded female voices from the world outside. Soon the tape recorder becomes the focal point for the entire barracks, allowing the recruits an outlet for their homesickness, loneliness and desire.