Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her madness proves to be a problem in the marriage. The film transpires to a positive role of madness in the family, challenging conventional representations of madness in cinema.

"Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the Nazis!" A US Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II.