They are the heroines and villains of the story: Hannie Schaft and Truus and Freddie Overseegen are Dutch girls who decide to take a ruthless revenge attack in the face of the Nazi occupation, Velvalee Dickinson uses an ingenious method to thwart the American war effort, Zheng Pingru risks her life to hunt down a collaborator, mother of three Odette Sansom fights against the Nazis in France, Catherine Dior, the fashion designer's sister, leaves her mark with the Resistance and a perfume.