"In Broken Lullaby, from famed director Ernst Lubitsch, Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) has returned from World War I triumphant, but is haunted by the death of a German soldier at his hands. Determined to make amends, he travels to the dead man's hometown and meets his former fiancee. Elsa (Nancy Carroll), and grieving father (Lionel Barrymore). Rather than reveal his true identity, Paul tells the two that he was a former friend of the deceased soldier....

Based on a real-life, little-known incident, this epic follows a convoy of British and German-Jewish commandos as they cross 800 miles of Libyan desert to blow up a key Nazi fortress at Tobruk guarded by General Rommel's best troops.