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Germany, March 1945. Shortly before the end of the war, Felix Bleck, a visually impaired reserve officer working as a guard in a military prison, is given the task of leading 40 of his prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be deployed in a penal battalion. Both the men and Bleck realize that he cannot look after the 40 prisoners alone. While they are making an escape plan so as not to be burned at the front, Bleck tries to win the prisoners' sympathy by doing them favors. When Bleck learns during the transport that his fiancée was killed in a bombing raid and at the same time has to carry out more and more nonsensical orders, he makes a fateful decision: together with his prisoners, he takes over the train and breaks through the enemy lines: they want to become prisoners of war.