Henrik radios the U-boat waiting offshore telling them not to leave without him. In the night, Esther’s family is taken to a concentration camp.

The mysterious pilot, Henrik Kessler, escapes to Amsterdam to smuggle his former fiance, Esther Jacobs, out of Holland.

An American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron and then attempts to land at a German airbase in Holland.