Rolph Spath

II. Dünya Savaşı sırasında, bir müttefik bombardıman uçağı işgal altındaki Paris üzerinde iken Almanların açtığı ateş sonucunda vurularak düşer. Uçuş komutanı Sir Reginald ve diğer mürettebat paraşütle atlamak zorunda kalırlar. İndikleri bölgede bazı sivil Fransızlardan yardım görürler. Bunlardan boya ustası Augustin Bouvet ve huysuz orkestra şefi Stanislas LeFort İngiliz mürettebatı önce saklarlar sonra da Fransa'nın güneyine, henüz Almanların işgal etmediği özgür bölgeye kaçmalarına yardım ederler.

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

In October 1942, as an offensive was launched against Rommel's troops, a vehicle carrying a doctor and four nurses strayed into the desert. Prisoners of a German unit and aware that it was going to use them to ambush the Allied relief column, they set out to foil the plan.