Serbia, autumn 1942, The SS has dispatched 200 men to the mountains to flush-out Commander Nikola Kalabic after receiving intelligence from a local informer of his whereabouts. The commander is accompanied by an elite unit of his Royal Mountain Corp troops.

Zlatibor, at the end of the summer of 1943. British General Charles Armstrong, the new head of allied military missions, is coming to the Supreme Command of the Yugoslav Army. He announces the imminent capitulation of Italy and the landing of the Western Allies on the Adriatic Sea.