 She is then forced to go on the run from the Nazis and their collaborators after killing an SS officer attempting to rape her.With the help of the Belgian resistance and the R.A.F., she escapes back to Britain with her information.Meanwhile, Saffron's lover, Luftwaffe pilot and German war hero Gerhard von Meerbach, participates in the Battle of Stalingrad and the subsequent doomed Nazi war effort.