Late in 1944 thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich the pilots took refuge with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safe. Holed up in a village barely able to feed its citizens encircled by Nazis and left abandoned after a team of British secret agents failed to secure their escape the airmen were left with little choice. It was either flee or be killed.