A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and now is working for the army against the Germans.
A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".
In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
