In the night of August 24 to 25, 1944, the fate of the City of Lights is in the hands of Wermacht general Dietrich von Cholitz, Governor of the Greater Paris. Acting on Hitler’s orders, he is ready to blow up the entire city in order to delay the inevitable: the advance of the Allied troops to German soil and the end of WWII. Despite the million-and-a-half human casualties and the destruction of an invaluable cultural heritage, the Nazi general shows no sign of hesitation: the orders are to be carried out. Paris seems lost, until Raoul Nordling, the Consul of Sweden, shows up uninvited in von Cholitz’s hotel room. A career diplomat, he takes it upon himself to save a metropolis, and a human conscience as well.
