Summary
A pallid Belgian dawn creeps over the lace-curtained orphanage where Yvonne, flaxen-boned and war-branded, presides over a choir of displaced moppets; her marriage to the austere aristocrat Karl Von Krutz—part Prussian rigor, part paper tiger—shatters the instant he confesses, with a voice like dry parchment, that his silk-lined tunic hides a spy’s circuitry. Into this brittle tableau strides U.S. Captain Strong, a man carved from Nebraska thunderclouds, who sloughs off his own name like a snake its skin, dons the discarded identity of the Teutonic informer, and reroutes a blood-spattered intelligence mission toward a single, incandescent objective: keep Yvonne and her waifs breathing beneath a sky hemorrhaging shrapnel. The price of his mercy is a courtroom whose mahogany benches gleam like coffin lids, where medals are stripped, honor is quartered, and the gavel’s echo becomes the film’s final heartbeat.
Synopsis
Belgian girl Yvonne is married to Karl Von Krutz who admits to being a spy after war breaks out. U.S. Captain Strong assumes his identity and aborts a mission he is on to save the lives of Yvonne and the orphans for whom she cares. For this he must face court-martial.
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