![Felix Bressart](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/x3NDEBpQavuhcV2yFNgm3JK0d5J.jpg)
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.