During the battle for Caen in 1944 a young british commando is seriously wounded and seeks the help of a young french resistance fighter to avoid capture by an evil German Captain

SYNOPSIS:

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Synopsis by

Robert Verlander

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During the battle of Caen, an injured British Commando seeks refuge in a remote French farmhouse. Tended to by a seemingly nice doctor he falls in love with the doctor's daughter despite the language barrier. As he clings to life, can he survive the Nazi hunt for him long enough for help to arrive?

Corporal Harvey Wilson is a rough type from a hard borough of Manchester. Son of a WW1 hero he is forced to join the army otherwise be carted off to prison for his bad behavior. Harvey is part of a small squad of commandos tasked with reconnoitering German positions outside of Caen immediately after D-Day.

Harvey is injured during a serious firefight with troops from the SS-Einsatzgruppen. His squad mates are killed but not before they injure the leader of the SS squad, Friedrich Clasen, a merciless and cold-blooded killer. Harvey crawls his way to a remote French farmhouse where he is tended to by a French doctor and his beautiful daughter Emile Banet a French nurse and resistance fighter forced to work in Caen at the German field hospital.

Going back before this moment in time Harvey spends time with his family before D-Day. Emile puts up with maltreatment from the Germans. Freidrich spends time with his family before going off to kill Jews.

Freidrich brutally massacres a village but leaves a little girl, Fleur, alive, and all alone after watching Friedrichs men rape her mother and Freidrich himself put a bullet in her head.

D-Day +1 sees Harvey and his squad being issued with their mission to hunt out and reconnoiter German positions, they set off as the rest of the army prepare for the attack on Caen itself.

At the farmhouse Harvey finds himself in a world he can’t understand. Emile and her father cannot speak English, so Harvey struggles to communicate with them, and in particular Emile who he forms a bond with eventually falling in love with her. She too falls for him, despite the father disapproving.

The British eventually take Caen and spread out West and North. A group of commandos from Harvey's company find Fleur in the village eating moldy food and sleeping at night next to the body of her dead mother. They take pity on her and take them with her planning to drop her off in the next village over.

Freidrich and his now much smaller group are chased to the farmhouse by the commandos where a firefight takes place and all the SS are killed apart from the injured Freidrich. Fleur swears at Freidrich and is overhead by a British translator. She tells him what he did, and the commando kills Freidrich for Fleur.

In the farmhouse Emile and her father convince Harvey to leave out the back door believing it to be the Germans.

Once the firefight is over and as Harvey, Emile, and her father walk away across the back field, The Commandos discover Harvey's body near the front door of the farm outside where he died, and the bodies of Emile and her father hanging from the banister by their necks inside the house.