Liberated from a German labour camp at the end of World War Two, British Intelligence Officer, Bill Carne, is diagnosed with lung cancer. Although devastated by the news, he is determined, with the time he has left, to journey back to the small town in France where he had worked with the French Underground. He visits the farm of the ill-fated Dupont family where he had met Thereze, the girl he loved.
What he discovers is beyond anything he could have imagined.