Saigon
Marseille, 1955. The Indochina War is over, and the French must
withdraw from Saigon in defeat. Against this backdrop, two men meet in
Marseille who couldn't be more different. Hans Larsson, a German sailor,
has landed in jail because of a brawl, and his ship has sailed without
him. Jean-Pierre Laval is a German doctor with a shady past in the
Waffen-SS. Toward the end of World War II, he fled to Vietnam with false
papers and joined the French Foreign Legion. What connects them—both
are looking for a way to disappear from Europe. The captain of a German
cargo ship is willing to take them to Saigon, and they leave Marseille.
What not even the captain knows—in the forward cargo hold, crates of
weapons are stacked to the ceiling. Destination of the illicit
cargo—Formosa.
