In May, 1940, the German Army invaded France in a blitzkrieg attack that defeated the French army in six weeks. In Caen, France, as in the other cities of France, the French resistance arose to fight the Germans and free France from the brutal occupation by the Nazis. This is the story of the men and women who fought in the French resistance, in the dark of night and called by Brigadier General Charles De Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, the Army of the Shadows. and their heroic children, the Children of the Shadows, who fought bravely and heroically beside them to free their country. The story focuses on the lives of two young women, Marie Rose Dejardin and Eloise Anne Chambord, 15 and 17 years old, and their daily battle against the Nazis and their fight against the forces of evil.