在这部红色海报片中,1943年11月中旬，纳粹占领下的法国，Missak Manouchian 领导的抵抗小组的23名成员被捕，这些人大多是共产党员。1944年2月21日，纳粹杀害了其中22人，1944年5月10日其中一名女子被纳粹斩首。事后，纳粹印制了15000份的红色海报到处张贴，称他们为红色恐怖分子....
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.They were emigrants,coming from all over the world: twenty-two men and a woman.Their nationalities,their political opinions and their religion were not the same.An united front to the enemy,they took part in glorious feats ,before being arrested ,tried and shot ;the woman was beheaded.The comedians of the play meet their character's parents .
