During the World War II, Major Reisman is a tough and efficient military with problems with his superiors. He is assigned by General Worden for an almost impossible top secret suicide mission: to kill as much senior German officers as possible in a retreat on the eve of the D-Day. He must train twelve undisciplined convicted soldiers, most of them sentenced to death, to accomplish the mission. He joins the twelve men under the positive leadership of Joseph Wladislaw and the negative leadership of the insubordinate Victor Franko and tries to form a team with the support of Sergeant Bowren. He makes General Worden to promise to release them all if they are well succeeded. Meanwhile his enemy Colonel Everett Dasher Breed tries to make his life more difficult but Reisman and his twelve men need to prove that they are efficient.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil