Going Home is about a sergeant in Vietnam who is struggling to keep himself and two of his men alive long enough to be picked up by helicopters after a botched engagement in which the rest of the platoon was killed. What drives him and keeps him going are thoughts of his wife at home, and how he wants to wash the war off with a long bath. Unseen snipers kill his two men but in the moment between life and death the sergeant does make it 'home'.