<P> After a harrowing 15 - month combat experience in Iraq , the much - decorated Adam Schumann ( Miles Teller ) returns home to Kansas and a loving wife , Saskia ( Haley Bennett ) . Adam and Saskia have two young children , a daughter and infant son born while Adam was still overseas . Adam suffers from PTSD as manifest by nightmares and frequent flashbacks for which his wife convinces him to seek help from an overburdened Department of Veterans Affairs . He also receives solace from two Iraq buddies living nearby , an American Samoan , Solo Aeiti ( Beulah Koale ) , and Billy Waller ( Joe Cole ) , who commits suicide in front of his fiancée ( Erin Darke ) after discovering she has taken all his money and their child and left him . </P>
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Kansas