In the summer of 1941, an RAF pilot walks into a small town in unoccupied France. The Resistance need to establish if he really has been shot down by the Luftwaffe, or if he is really a Gestapo officer in disguise.
French colonial troops captured by the Germans in occupied France are regularly executed without trial. In the town of Choleau, four Senegalese soldiers begin murdering German soldiers, and the local Resistance face a difficult situation.
In occupied France, the men and women of the Resistance have to be wary of the German forces and the police, but also of those French people who operate as informers.
To new members of the Resistance dropped in from Britain, it is the first few hours in occupied territory which are the most dangerous. Alix's first assignment is to provide the new agents with their alibi.
