1991年1月,八名作战经验丰富的SAS老兵准备渗透伊拉克境内寻找并摧毁令空军无法轰炸的机动式飞毛腿飞弹基地,此任务由Andy McNab领军,队员包括Stan, Dinger, Mark, Vince , Bob, Legs 和 Chris(描述相同故事小说The One That Got Away的作者)。九人的特战小组整装完毕后,搭乘直升机进入伊拉克境内,不料一下飞机却发生无线电调错频率无法与基地联系的问题,紧接着又被伊拉克士兵发现,他们为了逃避追杀舍弃重装备,此后一路上就是不停的逃命。[收起部分]
The movie is a free interpretation of the story of the notorious Danish “angel maker” Dagmar Overbye, who murdered dozens of infants in Copenhagen in the 1910s and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1921.