A traumatized 17-year-old volunteers for WWII service to escape the clutches of the Klan only to find an equally insidious foe within that threatens to thwart his segregated battalion's critical D-Day mission. Based on a true story, it's a MEN OF HONOR meets RED TAILS drama.

SYNOPSIS:

It's early 1943 when Williams "Bill" Dabney, Dabs to all who know him, discovers the disfigured body of his friend, an army private beaten to death by the Klan. The traumatized 17-year-old, with no prospects for a brighter future makes the gut wrenching decision to join the Army, where he discovers elements of Klan life within the ranks nearly as dangerous as that of his native Virginia.

A member of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only all-Black unit to take part in the D-Day invasions, Dabney is assigned the dangerous mission of flying explosive laden hydrogen balloons over Omaha Beach much to the dismay of his Jim Crow loving training officer, Lieutenant Jasper Greaves and those the unit is assigned to protect. Greaves' disdain for colored soldiers leads to the death of one of Dabney's closes friends during a training exercise. Greaves is relieved of command only to be promoted and reinstated as Dabney's commander just weeks before the invasion. The fate of the two now inextricably linked forces Dabney to take charge or parish at the hands of one of his own.

Days after the invasion, a mission change has Dabney and team hunting German snipers when a 10-year-old French/American boy befriends Dabney at his most critical moment, a bloody fight to the death with a German soldier. The boy sees it all, yet the ugliness of the Nazi occupation has left the little boy numb to the horrors of war. The Germans have already killed his American father. Dabney and his unit care for the boy as a German Panzer division prepares to launch an invasion of the small French town where they are holed up waiting for Allied reinforcements.