Novel
노르만디 침공을 배경으로 한 전쟁터가 배경이 된다. 다가오는 전투에 맞닥뜨린 미국과 영국의 두 장교를 통해 그들의 사랑을 회상하며 전형적인 전개로 시작된다. 미국군 장교인 G.I는 아프리카 전쟁터로 나간 영국 특공대 군인의 아내와 사랑에 빠지게 되면서 그들의 운명은 갈라지게 된다.
Story
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Novel
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.