Burt Zollo draws on his own experiences to write a riveting story of a young Jewish-American soldier who is assigned to a Nazi POW camp in rural France at the end of the war. When the officer, Sandy Delman, reacts violently to a racial slur from one of the inmates he loses his stripes and is forced to work under a hostile supply sergeant. The POWs are facing starvation as more and more Germans are pouring into the camps at the climax of the war. Delman comes up with a daring and risky plan to obtain supplies in an expedition across the French countryside. The survival of the prisoners, Delman's own life, and the reputation of the POW camp itself hangs in the balance.