After Nazis invade Denmark in WW2, a Danish winemaker and his French wife join the resistance and discover how far ordinary people will go to protect their family, friends, and each other.

SYNOPSIS:

1925 Berlin; German citizens continue to suffer from the aftermath of their country’s defeat in WW1. Paul, a young Dane, graduates from distiller training in Berlin alongside his German friend Hans. Hoping to follow in his late father’s footsteps as a wine merchant, Paul travels to Paris, meets Raydy, a spirited French woman who becomes the love of his life. Paul accepts a job to export Bordeaux wines in Venezuela and Columbia. After a rough start in South America, Paul returns to France a success, marries Raydy, and builds a peaceful family with their daughters, Mado and Vivi.

1939, Paul and Raydy listen to Hitler give speeches on BBC radio as Nazi military power expands. They believe their country will remain neutral if a second war breaks out… until April 9th 1940, when Germany invades Denmark. Wehrmacht soldiers patrol the streets. Ordinary life dissolves into quiet fear. As the occupation tightens, Paul witnesses growing SS and Schalburg Corps brutality, culminating in the senseless killing of an unarmed student during a nighttime sabotage. The moment affects him deeply; he can no longer remain passive. Drawn into the resistance by his friend Skipper, Paul offers his home as a safe house and secretly assists Jewish families to escape to Sweden. Raydy refuses to relocate to a friend’s house in the country with Mado and Vivi. She stays with Paul and becomes his partner in hiding fugitives, smuggling a radio-phone into Copenhagen, and lying to Gestapo.

By 1944, German crackdowns grow harsher. During nationwide strikes and violent street clashes, Paul is warned his name is circulating. A resistance contact named Holger is caught with a gun wrapped in parcel paper, taken to Nazi headquarters and beaten; exposing Paul’s involvement. Arrested and interrogated by a Danish Nazi collaborator and the Gestapo, Paul is also beaten but refuses to give them the information they seek. Meanwhile, his home is raided by Gestapo where Raydy is interrogated under threat of knife; she reveals nothing despite the threat to her life. Paul is transferred to Vestre Prison, then the Frøslev internment camp, and finally the Neuengamme concentration camp, where labor, starvation and daily cruelty against defenseless prisoners wears him down.

Desperate to have her husband released, Raydy approaches lawyer, Michael Reumert. His attempts to pay off a Nazi insider to help Paul are refused, stating the risk is too great. Reumert introduces a second plan with another insider who has successfully released prisoners from Neuengamme; a mysterious German official known as “Mr. X,” who agrees to try and secure Paul’s release with falsified documents. Unknown to Raydy, Mr. X is actually Hermansen, the Gestapo officer overseeing Paul’s case. With covert help from Hans, the forged medical paperwork is secretly slipped under a stack of prisoner release forms and signed. After months of suffering, Paul is finally returned to Denmark, only to learn the Gestapo has discovered the forged medical paperwork and plans to arrest him again. Narrowly escaping, he flees to Sweden. Raydy is warned of her imminent arrest and escapes as well.

Joining Daneforce in Sweden, Paul aids Allied officers review the air raid that destroys the Shellhouse/Nazi headquarters; an attack that nearly kills Hans. When the war ends, Paul's family seeks a new life in America. In 1946, after arriving at the Baltimore Immigration Station, an error in Vivi’s paperwork threatens to separate the family once more. Paul has learned that true justice requires embracing humanity instead of forcing rigid laws. He makes a final plea to the immigration officer, acknowledging the officer’s authority, asking him to give his family a second chance to live together in peace, and feel safe. The immigration officer regards the Jacobsen family, sees their hope, his professional stance softens; he stamps Vivi’s passport with a firm hand. “Welcome to America.”