When the sons of World War II veterans are invited to spend two months at a re-created German POW Camp for a reality television show, they soon find their cherished fantasy turning into a nightmare when they discover there is no show, the camp is real, and the Germans are going to make them pay with their lives for the sins of their fathers.

SYNOPSIS:

FRANK MURPHY’S life is a shambles. His wife, BRENDA, has thrown him out of the house, and his war souvenir business is failing. But all this changes when he receives a mysterious DVD someone has pushed through the mail slot.

“Spend two months in the wilds of New Hampshire taping a new reality TV series with one hundred other men in an authentic replica of a World War Two German POW Camp!” the DVD says. “Come and experience the thrill of a lifetime and be the lucky winner to walk away with $1,000,000!”

For Frank it is the chance to put his life back on track, and a chance to feel closer to the heroic and beloved father he barely knew. Eager for adventure, Frank and his best friend, DEAN SEGER, leave their wives and families behind and plunge headlong into a time gone by.

Everything about Camp Stalag is authentic: The buildings, the uniforms, the food, the guards, the weapons—the savage treatment.

Camp Stalag, the monstrous creation of billionaire defense contractor HEINRICH KOENIG and his adopted son, JOHANN SCHMIDT, is Koenig’s last hurrah—his final and ultimate revenge for the humiliations of Germany’s defeat and the death of his mother at the hands of marauding American soldiers. Dying of brain cancer, he has secreted a weapon of terrifying power within the camp to ensure that no one will interfere.

Unaware of this danger, and desperate for freedom, Frank and his men try to escape the camp’s brutality.

Koenig’s mental deterioration has left him believing the camp is real and the war still rages. He orders the compound expanded, tortures the prisoners for outdated military secrets, and begins having nightmares from his past that leave him dangerously disoriented.

Thoroughly frightened, and mistrustful of conventional authority, Brenda turns to her uncle: ex-cop and private eye, JOHN RILEY—the one man she knows is capable of freeing her husband.

Posing as a “captured” flyer to infiltrate the camp, Riley warns Frank that he and the other prisoners are all in imminent danger. But before Riley can help them escape, Koenig has him executed as a spy.

This is the final straw for Frank who, after a dark night of the soul where he confronts and conquers a lifetime’s accumulation of fear and doubt, organizes the other prisoners in a daring escape armed with weapons stolen from Koenig’s own armory. Every man knows his life is at stake, for Koenig has nothing left to lose.

With lightning precision, and with only seconds to spare, the prisoners kill the guards in a vicious firefight, blow the gates, and escape—just as the camp is destroyed in a massive explosion.

Joyously reunited with Brenda a few miles from the ruined camp, Frank realizes that he has not only made peace with his father’s spirit; he has found his manhood.