In 1944, American second lieutenant John Gorham Westfall receives a daring mission: under the cover identity '375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans, ' he is to parachute into Yugoslavia and extract shot-down American pilots. His orders are stark: 'This is a war of no morality... Do what it takes. Get our boys out. Methods are immaterial. Morals schmorals.' Soon, Westfall faces a harrowing conflict between his mission and his ethics...