In
German-occupied Belgium in 1943, a group of
Flemish resistance fighters under the command of Stan (
Koen De Bouw) fighting for the
Allied cause is ordered by
Kapitein Maes (Vic De Wachter) of the Belgian headquarters in London to travel to the
Belgian Congo to operate a captured German
U-boat. On arrival the group is told they'll use the submarine to deliver a cargo of
Uranium-235 to New York City, for use in the secret
Manhattan Project which is creating the first
nuclear bomb.
Kapitänleutnant Franz Jäger (
Thure Riefenstein), a captured U-boat commander, is training the resistance fighters to operate the U-boat in exchange for the freedom to see his son again. Before their training is complete, and while the cargo is loaded, German warships attempt to recapture the U-boat, forcing Maes to depart for the US immediately. Jäger accidentally kills Maes in an argument, leaving Stan in charge. The group is joined by a French-speaking Congolese worker named Jenga (Rudy Mukendi), left behind by his employer during the German attack. The untrained crew successfully fight through the
Kriegsmarine and overcome other obstacles, such as the flooding of the
onboard toilet, as they depart for New York. Filip (Joren Seldeslachts) tells Stan's surviving daughter Nadine (Ella-June Henrard) that her father was tortured and her mother and baby sibling were murdered by a
Gestapo officer named Kirchbaum (Martin Semmelrogge) because he had hidden a Jewish family in his home. The submarine is stopped by a German
destroyer and the resistance crew pretend to be German sailors as a boarding party enters the U-boat. Van Praag (Gilles De Schryver), who had both his legs amputated after they were crushed under a fallen torpedo, starts yelling out in pain prompting a German doctor to examine him. Van Praag blows his cover by yelling out in
Flemish and is killed with the entire German boarding party in an ensuing firefight. Jäger kills the last German boarder, believing
Hitler should never get his hands on their catastrophic cargo. Nadine disables the destroyer with a well-aimed sniper bullet, but can't prevent the ship from
ramming the U-boat. == Cast ==