 However, it is not long before France surrenders, and Abel and his comrades are sent to a camp in East Prussia.Abel is often able to sneak away from the camp to a hunting cabin in the forest where he feeds a blind moose.One day, he encounters a German officer who is curious about his affinity for animals and tells him that the moose is known as The Ogre to the local peasants before telling him to return to the camp and to stop visiting the cabin.