Inflicted with PTSD from a young age, a mute street performer is abandoned by his troupe as France becomes occupied by the Nazi Wehrmacht. Faced with the choice to escape to neutral Switzerland or fight, he joins the French Resistance as a code-breaker and infiltrates the Nazi regime. His tactics shift when he learns what’s happening to the countless civilians going missing.

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Yes, indeed. ?If there is an one iron law of drama it is that there must be unity of action. ?And the nature of that unified action is a function of the objective goal of the protagonist.

Yes, indeed. ?If there is an one iron law of drama it is that there must be unity of action. ?And the nature of that unified action is a function of the objective goal of the protagonist.

And before any further arguments against an over arching goal are bought up, for main stream stories, the need for a unity of action driven by an over arching goal is not a Hollywood only notion that dares breach the sanctity of art by suggesting that films are a commercial endeavour? it was explained, if not defined, by Aristotle himself.

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