Enemy at the Door

The Germans descend upon Guernsey in June 1940, stifling the island with restrictions. Wealthy Peter Porteous plans to join the resistance but is wounded and killed by a fisherman while attempting his escape.

An investigation into Porteous' botched escape further cripples the islanders' rights. The Germans mount a censorship campaign, yanking library books from shelves. As the violence escalates, the librarian refuses to co-operate and is arrested for assaulting a German soldier.

When the Germans organize a propaganda dance, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer is enticed to attend. Naïve Marie Weston is ruffled by a soldier's advances and accuses him of rape. The young Austrian is court-martialed, but worse things are still to come.

Richter relays a message from his high command to Dr. Martel, warning reprisals will be taken towards anybody hoping to follow Peter's example. Dr. Martel's son Clive lands secretly on the island to spy out the German position, hiding with his old business partner Teddy Lupus. Clare meets Willie Kessler, a Luftwaffe pilot, whose face was burned in an air strike.

When a British raid fails, wounded troops retreat into hiding. An investigation to capture the soldiers is led by Oberleutnant Kluge, who orders an innocent man to the firing squad. Clive admits to his role and is deported to a POW camp.

When "V for Victory" signs start appearing around the island, the Germans determine to crack down hard on this act of civil disobedience. Peter Porteous faces an awful dilemma after suspicion falls on an innocent teenager who is driven by Oberleutnant Kluge and Hauptmann Reinicke to the most desperate of measures.

Reinicke enlists a Polish prisoner to set an elaborate trap for Sir James Prideaux, a former British intelligence officer with knowledge the Germans would like to acquire. The prisoner has a history of deceiving Sir James, including a pre-war affair with his wife. His success this time would put Sir James in the greatest peril of his life.

Police chief Kluge tries to clamp down on the island's flourishing black market, but he needs the help of the local police to succeed. As rationing-induced malnutrition and sickness worsen, Dr. Martel encounters a horrible reality: a young patient faces certain death unless he obtains a vital drug that only the black market can provide.

Collaboration reaches new levels as a lonely young housecleaner who works for the Germans takes a special interest in one particular soldier. When she becomes pregnant by him, her neighbors convey their views in the clearest of terms while her lover's lack of communication leaves her in the most terrible of limbos.

Against the backdrop of German reverses in the wider war, a general arrives from occupied France to assess the islands. But could he have a larger agenda? What interest does he have in a local retired British army officer? And why has a Gestapo officer traveled all the way from Berlin in the general's wake?

A man steals fuel from work in order to heat a stove in the derelict cottage where he lives with his sick mother. Such a seemingly minor infringement has tragic consequences for both, and, once again, Dr. Martel is saddled with the blame.

When an aristocratic officer tries to humiliate Hauptmann Reinicke by exposing his affair with a French prostitute now living on the island, the SS man plots to get rid of her. After the woman is found stabbed to death, suspicion falls squarely on Reinicke.

As Dr. Martel prepares to travel to Paris for desperately needed medical supplies, photos of a docked German torpedo boat turn up. With a new by-the-book commander-in-chief on his way to the islands, Major Richter must pass sentence on three suspected spies, among them the most resistant islander of them all: the doctor's daughter, Clare Martel.