June 1940. France surrenders to the German army and signs the armistice. Amidst the chaos, one man refuses to accept the situation: General de Gaulle. As a brand-new enemy of the state, he flees - without army, support, nor hope - to London to pick up the pieces of his fallen fatherland. De Gaulle has one rock-solid belief: a new free France and Europe that does not lay down its arms against Nazi Germany.