Twelve bearded, filthy G.l.s wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists —they wait to be sentenced to death or hard labour for life. They are the damned of the American Army.
Suddenly, almost miraculously, they are offered a chance of salvation: a mission just before D-Day. The chances of their getting away with it were about one in a million - but the damned don't care; and certainly don't count chances...