Gerd Von Rundstedt
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En mayo de 1944, un comando formado por cinco mujeres de la Resistencia Francesa recibe la orden dellevar a cabo una peligrosa misión: lanzarse en paracaídas sobre la Francia ocupada para proteger el secreto del desembarco de Normandía y eliminar al coronel Heindrich, el jefe del contraespionaje alemán. Louise, viuda de un líder de la Resistencia, es una experta francotiradora. Jeanne es una dura prostituta que no dudará en matar. Gaëlle, una joven experta en explosivos, está deseando entrar en acción. Suzy, una despampanante ex corista, fue amante de Heindrich. Maria es una condesa italiana que trabaja como agente secreta.
In August 1792, on the eve of the attack on the Tuileries, Catherine Hubscher, a laundress in Paris, met a sergeant and an artillery lieutenant who would become respectively Marshal Lefèvre and Emperor Napoleon I. 1810. Napoleon was about to marry Marie-Louise. Fearing the inconstancies and moral lessons of Marshal Lefebvre, the emperor asked her husband to keep her away from the wedding ceremonies. He is unaware that the hotheaded young woman has received a personal invitation from the Austrian embassy.
On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
Fröelichein
Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year. He despises his family, and do not want to remain a crude peasant like them. Two businessmen, Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein, want him to work in their factories. The former wins the contest. Gaspard is a young Turk who wants to make his way of life at any cost. He steals ideas from other young men and becomes an occasional informer. He wins his boss over and, as this tycoon has no son, he is adopted by him even though his biological parents are still alive. But unfair competition threatens Fereor's business and Gaspard is forced to marry Frolichein's daughter, Mina.
Le maître d'hôtel
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.
Víctor, obrero, y Germinal, peluquero, son miembros activos de la Resistencia y no quieren que sus familias se enteren. Sin embargo, un día Blanche, la esposa de Víctor, y Marie, la hija de Germinal, los descubren. Marie, refugiada en la casa de su abuelo y simpatizante de Pétain, se convierte en contacto, mientras que Blanche abre su casa a los hombres de la Resistencia. Ella descubre entonces que su madre Louise, es igualmente un agente activo...
