França, 1924. Famoso, carismático e sempre com belas mulheres à tiracolo, o lutador Alain Le Freve recebe de um chefão do crime organizado a proposta mais indecente de sua carreira: entregar uma luta. Mais que uma proposta, perder o combate é uma imposição da máfia local. Porém, o sangue quente e o instinto vencedor de LeFreve falam mais alto, e ele arrasa seu adversário logo nos primeiros Rounds . Jurado de morte e perseguido pelos mafiosos mais perigosos da Europa, ele só vê uma saída: alistar-se na Legião Estrangeira e fugir para o Norte da África. Lá chegando, porém, ele logo percebe que a aridez do deserto e a violência dos homens, podem ser mais avassaladoras que o mundo de crimes que ele deixou para trás.
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family.
Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together unmarried, her mother's hunger strike when they won't baptize their son. Regitze is passionate and forthright; she speaks her mind. He remembers her inviting a derelict for Christmas dinner, and the man shows up with five bashful friends. He recalls her taking on their son's teacher when the man slaps the lad. He remembers her love of dancing and his fear that his social clumsiness might end their relationship. Now, in twilight, he has other things to face.
