The True Story of Odette Sansom, WW2's Most Highly Decorated Spy. The year is 1942, and World War II is in full swing. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father's footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. She meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill in occupied France and begins her mission. As they successfully complete mission after mission, they are captured by German secret police and are sent to concentration camps in Germany where they are starved, beaten, and tortured. But in the face of despair, they never give up hope, their love for each other, or the whereabouts of their colleagues.