In the dark days of 1940, the British army has fallen back to the town of Dunkirk, desperately awaiting evacuation. Meanwhile, a few miles inland, the last survivor of his regiment joins the remnants of another platoon, and together face an arduous escape to the coast.

Wounded, exhausted, and with the threat of the cold-blooded SS tracking them down, the soldiers’ journey home has barely begun, with their only hope being their sheer determination to survive.