Something to Remind Me

Maurice, an army aviator, proposes to Helen Berker, and is told by her she cannot offer him any hopes for their marriage as she is already engaged to an officer of their hated country with whom war is now certain. During her visit to the army's aeroplane factory with Maurice she receives a telegram from her sweetheart, Ivan Warner, telling her that he has taken advantage of the present armistice between their countries and will visit her. She shows the telegram to Maurice, who immediately becomes jealous. On Ivan's arrival he goes at once to Helen's father to ask for his daughter's hand. He is refused, the father objecting because he does not want his daughter to marry an enemy of their country. Downcast, the lovers retreat to another room, and during their conversation are aroused by a newsboy crying out the latest extra. Dashing to the street, Ivan purchases a paper and reads that the opposing powers, having failed to come to an amiable agreement, have made a final declaration of war. Reading this, he persuades Helen to elope with him. This she consents to do, and after hasty preparations they escape that night, and entering a waiting automobile they start on their wild dash through the enemies' lines. Amid hairsbreadth encounters with sentinels who, trying in vain to obstruct their passage, they finally cross the border into Ivan's camp. He immediately persuades the mayor of the village to marry them, and in the midst of the wedding the pursuing cavalry charge upon the village. The mayor tells Ivan of a secret passage which will lead them outside of the city. He implores him to take this in order that they may escape, and after many thrilling adventures they finally reach its end and lay down in a field for rest. A scouting party of the enemies comes upon them and immediately arrests Helen as a spy, while Ivan, bound hand and foot, is left to die. Helen is taken to a temporary prison to await instructions. Maurice, who had joined the rival army as an aviator, discovers that Helen is being held prisoner and he decides to rescue her. After eluding the soldiers. Maurice places her in an aeroplane and starts on their journey to safety. In the meantime, Ivan, having released himself of his bonds, and finding his way back to his own camp, starts out in an endeavor to save Helen. He discovers an aeroplane of the enemies flying overhead. Not knowing that it contains his wife and best friend, Maurice, he orders his men to fire upon it, destroying it. When they arrive at the side of the wrecked aeroplane Ivan discovers his great mistake, finding Helen dead, a victim of war.

In the last months of the French colonization of Tunisia, around 1954, three young people of different conditions, Mustapha, from a traditionalist and hardworking middle class, Hedi, a young bourgeois who embraced the revolutionary cause by idealism, and Hassen a dedicated primary and attached to the cause are part of an occupant resistance cell. They release prisoners, attack a weapons depot, execute a collaborator. Hassen and Hedi lose their lives. Mustapha who becomes "fellaga" is captured and executed.