Plot summary

On May 1, 1944, against the backdrop of the Nazi Occupation of Athens, two hundred proud inmates of the gloomy Chaidari prison met their fates in the blood-stained shooting range of Kaisariani. Among the patriotic Resistance fighters, Napoleon Soukatzidis, a polyglot Cretan of Asia Minor descent and reluctant interpreter of the camp's German commander, Karl Fischer, found himself before a pressing dilemma that would threaten to shake his fervent beliefs. And, in retaliation for the murder of a high-ranking German official and his escorts, two hundred men died a horrible death. But it is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland.—Nick Riganas