Michel Subor

In 1958, during the Algerian war, Bruno deserts and hides out in Switzerland where he falls in love with Véronica. But the extreme right send him to assassinate a political reporter on national radio.

In Djibouti, the men of a French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills, exercising and baking in the sun. Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a loner who runs his troop like a well-oiled machine.