The Red Scarf

The year is 1944. The Allied invasion of Europe is fast approaching. In response to pleas for help from underground movements across Europe, the British War Department has established the Special Operations Executive unit to train espionage agents for work behind enemy lines. A few of these agents are women, and each knows that the average life expectancy of a female spy is less than six weeks. Margot, a strong-minded, aspiring actress still reeling from personal tragedy, volunteers to fly into the Gestapo headquarters city of Lyon France to help restart and arm the local resistance movement. Once there, she must win the trust of Henri, the leader of a beleaguered group of partisans, and Robert, a local policeman. Unbeknownst to anyone, she has a very personal reason for undertaking such a dangerous assignment.Margot quickly falls under the suspicions of the Milice, Vichy’s hated police force. The pressure intensifies when the Gestapo also begins tracking her every move. The stress of building a resistance network while trying to avoid capture by both police groups grows ever more intense, forcing Margot to rely on audacity, deception and even harrowing escapes through Lyon’s traboules, in a perilous life-or-death struggle. Based on the real-life exploits of female SOE agents during World War II, The Red Scarf is an insightful, gripping tale of clandestine life inside France as the country struggles to cast off years of vicious German and Vichy rule.