When an Italian submarine torpedoes a Greek destroyer, a trapped platoon must escape the Albanian coast with its honour intact.

Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.—Greek Film Archive

August 15, 1940, 8:25 a.m. During peacetime, the Italian submarine Delfino fired three torpedoes at the Greek warship Elli, anchored at the port on the island of Tinos, Greece, to join the celebrations of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Two months later, the Greco-Italian War broke out, and Benito Mussolini's army invaded the Albanian-Greek border on October 28. Following the first act of World War II in Greece, a convoy of Italian tanks attacks a Hellenic Army tactical truck, and officer Petros escapes death by the skin of his teeth. This is the story of a handful of brave Greeks who fought tooth and nail to retake an impenetrable pillbox and rescue the outnumbered and outgunned soldiers.—Nick Riganas